FRENCH SCHOOL 
and a yt ne 
“¢ Jefus Chri ft converting with 
n Woman.” *.Jefus Chrift taken dov 
the Crofs, and placed on the Knees of his Mother,” mae bey he 
fLoning of St. Stephen,”’ are alfo after Carracci. “ Jefus Chrift 
at the Houfe of Martha and Mary,” after re 
“¢ The beer of the ia by the ea rmy,’’ after 
Vanderme ulen “ age oo Mary de Medicis to 
ont-de-Le,”’ after Ruben ie e Lux urg lamang 
<< Winter,”’ pies the ftatue which Girardin seed in mar 
ble, for the gardens of Verfailles. Scven plates contain: 
a Tomb of pe peuied 
e Sorbonne. nomy,’ 
seal Se compofition, afer Michel Comeille, i fon, an 
val. “Ve ringing the Dictamnum to cure the Wound 
oF Eneas,”’ after Ch. de la Foffe. 
- The ee following are after Le Brun, viz. «¢ The En- 
trance of Jefus into Jerufalem.”  « oo bearing of the 
Crofs.”’ “The Death of Hypolitus.’’ «<< He reulee driv- 
ing away the Stymphalides,”’ an se in {mal folio. er- 
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nche Comté, in 1674,”’ a large allego- 
rical cease with an arched ee and generally and juitly 
efteemed the “matter-piece of Simonneau. t with his 
Nativity,” are both wfter oe 
Homo,” and « The Triumph of Galates.” The na 
latter plates are — by the painter, and finifhed with the 
graver by Sim 
The following folio portraits by pe wie have ae con- 
fide Sa nrietta 
we arlo ee “Elizabeth, ‘duchefs 
ger of Orleans, after Rigaud. Julius Hard M 
aol archite@ to the king, after Fr. de Troy. 
Francois, de Lomenie, of Brienne, bifhop of Coutances, 
ntoin Frangois eri matter 
De Laun nay. Louis ording ‘to dif- 
rs, and at ae periods. of hie: life, va “fring 
ns zstached. to a palm-tree. He alfo. engraved 
two or ihe ee plates of the fickening, or ridiculoufly refined, 
court flattery of Ant. Coypel, with adalah of the king, 
and Colbert d@’Ormoy, /uperintendant of the ar 
Simonneau had a fon, Philip, w be cae fone cht up to the 
profeffion of engraving. is fimilar, but his 
talents inferior to thefe of his father, and he. engraved 
but few plates. 
Two ae friezes, the seg reprefenting “ The Rape of 
the Sabines,’’ the other, “¢ The Peace between the Ro- 
mans and the Sabines,”’ veer ulio Romano. *“ ‘The Three 
effes preparing por the cea of ee ”? after Perin 
aa Vaga, in folio. “ Venus and Adonis, > after Albano, 
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and two ae for the Caazat colle&tion, are all that are 
ee of the works of Philip Simonneau 
uis aerate Pel brother of Charles, was born 
oi Orleans m eee ied at Paris in 1728. e feems to 
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faa ie etching-needle with the graver, he has imparted, 
an agreeable variety to his works. He drew with great correct- 
nefs, as is more particularly obfervable in the extremities of his 
Li < his elder eat he was a member of th 
talents, was fcarcely his infe- 
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The bett hiftorical works of Louis Simonneau are as 
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follow,. beginning with thofe after Ant. Dieu, which are 
of the folio clafs : «« The Bearing of the Crofs,” « Jefus 
Chrift nailed to the Crofs.”’ © Jefus: Chrift dead on the 
srofs.’’ Thefe three plates conttitute part of a feries of 
twelve, ae = on which are engraven i? ran. 
therin « The AM umpti on of the ee 
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Virgin,” a 
cieling satel by Le Brun in the feminary of St. 
Thofe which-follow aré after the fame ea aad are alfo 
in folio. «¢ The Four Times of the Day.” “ The Four 
"on the cieling of the Chateau de on le Vicomte. 
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Sceaux,”’ 
¢ Sufanna at ie Bat nts 
Coypel, and “ Jefus at ee ie of Martha and Mary, - 
both in folio, after Ant. Coy 
The bett portraits by | nee mtif are thofe of Hyacinthe 
Serroni, firft archbifhop 1, Im quarto. Antoine Ar-. 
nauld, a ye aes theologian, after Ph. D. Champagne, in 
folio. Antoine le Maitre, advocate of the a aor after 
the in me. Martin Chartnois, counfellor 0 ftate, director 
of the royal academy of painting and anaes aha Seb. 
Bourdon, 1706, in folio. 
Nicholas de eee the father, was born at Paris 
y little is known refpeCiing the life of this 
oa ; 
ftyle of engraving was far fori ree aa he may 
be clafled with the beit engravers of the fecond rank. 
e graver was the fole inflrument of his art, and he fome- 
times — us plates wit monogram which will be 
found i r plate ee 
beik sca are 
d’Orleans, brother “Of Louis XIV. 
duchefs d’Orleans, confort of Philippe. 
Swede 
He srs Stuard, 
Charles XI. of 
en. Henry-Julius de oe duke d’Enguien.- 
God ie eount qd’ Tirade, marfhal of France. Gabriel 
Nicolas d ela Re Pa Felicite of Auftria, confort 
Louifa- a duchefs de la 
Valliere, in the drefs ms a apenas nu Thefe are all of — 
the quarto clafs; the following are in 1 folio ¢ ; Maximilian- 
sab pages of Cologne. Balthafar Moretus. 
uce, a . an. nt. Cofter de Harlem, 
as oo en inventor of printing. Jean Guttemberg de 
Mayence, the on) ees of ae. The laft is engrav- 
ed without 7° crof{s-hatchings, in the manner of Mellan 
Nicholas de Larmeflin, the fon, was born at Paris in 1684, 
~ meen the fame city in 175 5a with the title of engraver 
ing. pupil of his father, and ear ly 
aifplayed the greateit indy in engraving eines i well 
as hiftorical fubje€ts. This artift had acquired great repu- 
tation for the prints he had execited for the calletion of 
ing, which conte par i. of Coda ‘ast che fly o as 
work h rt, pofieifed Bence and folidity, but his 
ious was a correét, 
The celebrated Schmidt of Berlin was the pupil of Lar- 
mefim, and engraved feveral fubjects after Lancret, which 
are marked with the re oO San — a prints: 
bearing the name of Schm extremely 
meffin’s beft e ace foe thofe eric were done,. 
chiefly oe epee, for the een colleétion, and which. 
are entitled as follow : , 
Portraits of Raphael, with that of Pontormo. Cardinal 
Pole, with along beard, feated in an arm-chair, from a pic- 
ture attributed = fome to Raphael, and by others to Se- 
battian 
