FRENCH SCHOOL 
Frederic ahaa archdeacon of 
a ieee ; this plate was engraven from a drawing in the pof- 
feflion of M. de Crozat, which was ee from a picture 
in the ee of the duke of Grafton, and the plat 
baflian ‘del Piombo. 
afterwards worked upon in England, Claas | after the - 
original piture,) by fir N. Dorign y: : ichael over- 
oming the Devil.’’ Ano j > fame fubject, different- 
ly treated. “ St. George encountering the SS 
the Evangelift.”” «“ The Holy 
«¢ ‘The Madonna with the Infant Chrift afleep on her Lap. : 
‘ Chrilt bearing his Crofs,’’ a very pe = from a very 
celebrated picture of this mafter, and “ The Vifion of Eze- 
kiel,’’? a middle-Gzed Dak folio. The bene ait of Adam 
de ie encaue grand miaiter of Malta, after Michael An- 
gelo ‘du Carra avaggio 3 an at of a comedian in the fer- 
vice of the duk tua, a Dominico Feti, were alfo 
engraven for the Crozat colle&tio 
The beft of our artift’s poe after French painters 
are of the folio clafs, and are entitled « Louis XIV. confer- 
lie and « Pagi Sponfa,”’ ate 
Watteau. 
After Lancret he has engraven, “A Village eee 
«The Play of Bull-leap.” ‘he Gafeon f punift A 
fet of four plates of “ The Four Ages of Man ns,’  Charac. 
terized by the amufements proper for each p@riod ; and 
« The Four oo characterized by the eecuyation pro- 
per | for tare feafon 
The of his’ prints 3 af ter Boucher, are, A monument 
to the memory John Tillotfon. « The eo aan 
der. ¢ The Amourous ee zan. : 
and “ The Calendae - old Men,” the four i ae 
from the tales of Fon 
The portraits by a arti, which are held i in moft efteem, 
e thole of Guillanme Ceufto 
ae painted by Jean de Lien, ae Eee by N. Lar- 
ell for his reception into the academy i im 1730. 
painter to the king, painted by Le Gros, 
Philippe Vicughel a Flemifh 
ene. us XV. 
On, 
Claude eu 
ee piece. 
another r 
pater, painted by Ch. de 
hampag on 
horfeback, cc . B. Vanloo and C. Parrocel. Louis XV. 
on > after J. B. Vanloo, ati - de Parrocel. Maria 
Leizincka, coniort of Louis XV. after the fame. 
f Saxony; dauphinefs of Trance, after the 
Lorraine, after Ranc. Woldemar 
Lowendal, marfhal of France, after ae Mademoi- 
— Sallé dancing, after Lancret, all in 
ut the year 
me Valentin, and painted 
es is nati bitag 
feveral rane _ Salvato » fom 
Madonnas after Guido, a few trophies ne Polidore de 
Carravaggio, and feveral vafes afte Charles Errard. Strutt 
has confounded this artift with Robert Tourniere, who was 
a ikilful portrait painter, and a native of Caen. 
Jaques Grignon was born in France, but in what part is un- 
certain, fome time inthe year 1 640, orthereabout, and flourithed 
till toward the clofe of the cen tury. : greater number, 
and bett Sanaa of his engravings, are re portraits which are 
entirely the work of the graver, an emed for clear- 
ne tnefs, aaa truth of repr ae on His eae 
rk, heavy, Morir muc effet, and inc 
thy of 
The bett portraits by Grignon are oer of Francois-Ma- 
ie Rhima, an ecclefiaftic, in {mall folio, and of the oval 
form. Pierre Barbareau, dottor in theology, after Cham- 
OF ENGRAVING: 
ne. Jacques Caur, said de St. Fargeau, fuperini-- 
pag 
tendant of the finances under Charles VII., in 1450. Jehan 
ureau, a powerful nobleman, peas and mayor of Bour-- 
ele chamberlain to Charles and Louis XI., and 
in 
French artillery, all in ‘bo lio 
i ale engrave’ feveral plates oy a more) in {mall 
folio, eed. « Les ableaux de la Penitence,”’ after the 
ex of the 
defign hens 3 of Chauvearn 
arles de la Haye was born at Fontainebleau 4 in 1641.. 
a aa Italy v when he was very young, refided there a 
confiderable time, and in conjunction a Bloemaert, 
aia Blondeau, and others, engraved the paintings of 
Pietro da Cortona, in the Pitti 
tainly a car dinal requifite, more Pi in engr ane after 
the matters of the Italian {cho 
e bett oe of de la. Haye are of the folio clafs; os 
= ee fubje 
« The Virgi in ah the infant Jefus on her Knees, ais is” 
diftributing Palms to St. Catherine — other holy Mar- 
tyrs,’’ after Ciro gd rr.“ The Virgin and Child oi eo 
to St. Philip Neri,’ a large upright, ye the fame matter.. 
© Coriolanus tae to fee the Roman Ambaffadors, on. 
bane exiled from Rome,”’ after the a «¢ The res 
Philofophers converfing in the Garden of Academus,’” J. 
F. Romanelli pinx., a fine plate, at oy his aes beft 
performance. 
ean Dolivan was born at Saragoffa in 1641. He fettled 
t Paris, and was chiefly e 
a decoratio rints may be 
with thofe of Chauveau and le Pautre; but he had a lefs fertile. 
genius than the latter. ‘He en caved feveral works in con- 
junGtion with different artifts, and among others, the feries 
termed, the little Conquelts of Louis XIV. fome of t 
plates for Berain’s ornaments of the royal tapettries, ~ of 
the cielings for hae s onde des Beaux Artes.. * Th 
2? ¢ Funeral Decorations 
vhapel of Condé, 7 Ae Houfe of the Jefuits.’? 
66 «© Subje&t e Grief for the Divine Service at the Chapel of | 
Condé.’ Maufoleum for the Funeral Obfequies of Maria 
de Guife d ea Queen of Spain, in 1695,” all in folio, 
and after Berain 
Gerard Scotin was born at Goneffe, near Paris, in 1642 ’ 
and flourifhed towards the end of the feventeenth century.. 
He was the pupil of pia abel and han eg 
with much ne eatnefs 5 but cution was ene equ ually 
mellow with ne of hi 1S rites » nor was his drawing of the 
caked ele y correct. 
Of ard Scotin, the you inger, who vifited England,. 
and was a aise artiit to his father, we have {fpoken in our: 
account of the Origin and Progrefs of Excuisu Engraving, 
The beft works. of. ek Scotin the elder, a the 
therine,”’ _after 
cifion,” infcri 
“The Ba 
ard. 
ptifm of Jefus Chritt,” inferibed ‘chic eft filius,” after 
“ Prefentation of the Infant Jefus in the 
rum,” after the marble of Girardon. « The Siege of Cour- 
tray,’ 
