edicated to pope 
rage eg executed wine artilts, 
engraven at Rom 1678. « Perf 
of Medufa,”’ nae & ser feus flaying ie Sea Nonfter,” two 
tes in {mall folio. «The Vik . St. Elizabeth,” 
dedicrted to the dauphinefs, after P. Mi ard.“ The Vir- 
gin with the Infant Jefus in her Arms, w ae holds a Bunch 
of Grapes,’’ a piece known under - name of “la Vier rge 
au Raifin,’’ dedicated to Madam e Maintenon, after the 
fame. ‘The above are alli in ole. avid prefenting the 
_ and Sword of Goliah to Saul,’’ Peas Jof. Parrocel, in 
tte 
he beft = eh Roullet, are thofe of Francis de 
Po ‘ity engraver to 
ament, 
Afcanius Philamarinus, cardinal meaty ee 
u 
rC. Ger 
"Rds war. d Colbert Cher, aideauie Valles (a 
of buildings, &c. by J. L. Roullet of Arles, 1698, an able 
engraving in imitation of bas relief. Cam ille le Tellier de 
Louvais, abbot of ee librarian to the king, after 
Nic. de Largilliere. s XIV. in regimentals, a-+three- 
_ figure, after the ae all in fo - 
t Fr rajat was born at Lyons in 1646. He learned 
the neuer : his under Guillaume Che: whom 
accompanied into Italy, and whom he very foon furpaffe 
in the paibe oe sas ai 8; and freedom of his engravings, 
though not in other refpe 
Having eda ae Frajet efpoufed the daughter of 
the celeleated land{cape painter Francois Grimaldi, better 
known by the appellation of e Baas ek: ee engrav 
after the moft celebrated Italian mafters, a great number of 
plates, among which the oe ing, which are of the folio 
clafs, are held in moit eftee 
« The Holy Family,” oe Albano, one of his earlier 
engravings, done under tl:e direction of Chateau. 
ee Holy F Family,’ : ee Pietro da Cortona. 
prefenting a crofs to the infant Saviour. 
or the Cor eustee OE St. Catharine,” 
a large plate of the upright form. « T 
and “ The ‘Temptation of St. Anthony,” 
BPS 
ni i. “ The Death of St. Jerome,’’ from Domi- 
nichino, another large upright. <«* St. Francis Kavier ex 
piring, contem d by Groups of Angels in the Clouds,” 
after raul. = Our Savio ptized in the Waters 
, after Carlo Maratti. <“ St. Bridget fitting in 
Envy, a venerated by Sages,”’ 
© The Courfe of ‘Ate 
of Jordan,’ 
the Clouds, ¢ 
-after B. Litti, engraven in 1707. 
eft ee i this wie are alfo in folio, and 2 are 
ie of Cardin ral Frederic Coccia; Cardinal Cornaro; Car- 
dinal Thomas Fe rrarl 5 Dom Colettinus, cardinal Sfron- 
datus, all after the pictures of L. David. 
-_ The biography of the family of the Bonnarts is in a con 
fufed ftate in all - — s that we have confulted, which. as 
they were mere me eek ioe will pr a y be an efs 
regretted. It oa appear that the brother rt aod 
Nicholas were born at Paris about the middle ae Ge "oth 
eae and perhaps alfo John Bonnart the elder, who en- 
aved figures a-la-mode, and Italian comedians a-la-gro.-. 
i 
ie with eu 1x plates of the coftume of the different 
ns of the earth, all in folio, and after his own defigns. 
fe who figns his name Joan Bonnart, jun. is fuppofed 
to have been the fon of the former, and by him there is a 
{pirited and free etching of a cieling adorned with poetical 
oe and publifhed in Perault’s Cabinet des Beaux 
e beft works of Robert ba Nicholas are as follow, 
afs: 
r : Rien Bonnart fecit. Portrait 
Louis, Dauphin, fon of Louis XIV. Idem fe ec. & Va 
sencienbes taken by A flault, and faved from Pillage | by the 
Clemency of the Ki ing, 167 7 7,’ after Vandermeuler, 
engraven R Sennar t. © The 
vo King taking Poffefi 
of the Citadel, after the Capture of oe. 8 : ae 
? 
Arras,” Id. fe. in two plates, all 
after Vander rmeulen, and engraved i in a coarfe ftyle. 
Pierre Giffart is another mediocre artift, who, however, 
fub{eribes himfelf Sculp tor R born in Paris 
What talent he 
N portraits, medals, and 
e 
tem among which the ieee are heid in moft 
efteem 
e-AAnne Victoire of Bavaria, dauphinefs of France + 
below i is td setae the birth of the duke de ee, in 
folio. Frances d’Au igné, marchionefs de Mont tefpan ;, 
executed oe fart, engraver to the king, in folio. 
Philippe I. fon of Thomas XIII. count of Savo ee 
Lange del. P. Giffart Sculptor Regius, Pasi in fmall 
olio, Odoard, fon of Arnadcus XV. co Savoy 
Id. del. id. fc. ymon, fon of Amadeus XVI count of 
avoy. Id. del. Louis, fon of Amadeus VIII. 
fecond duke of Savoy. Id. del. ids fe. all of the fame {mall 
folio fize. Colleétion of medals of the princes of the 
ower empire. Series o zes, Of cornices, tape 
for an altar, and three chandeliers ; five plates engraven by 
and Dolivart, after Berain in folio rentifpiece 
olier’s Geo ography, after S.. 
Le Clerc, in qua Tr ie cece to sia ee Hittory 
of Superftitious Prattices, after the 
sin 170 e vi ae 
orm 
arkable 4 for. the ener 
een of courage which, a arted to his war- 
ae and has been heard to era of thote of. Vander- 
meulen “ ne favoit pas tuer fon hom 
The hil ie of Jof, Parrocel are from his o 
compolition of, the sa fize,. a are believed 
to include he x of his works on coppe 
A fet of four plates of the four times of. the day, vite 
“ Aurora, or the Camp;  Mid-day, or the Hz alt ; 
Py a) or the Battle ;’’ * Night, the Field of Battle.’ 
A fe oe fox hea plates from the life of Chrift, na 
four: le battle pie 
Charles Parrocel, “the fon of Jofeph, was born at Paris 
A.D. 1689, and died in the fame city in 1752. He dedi-. 
cated his attention to the fame fpecies of art in which his 
father excelled, whom he was inflrudéted, and whom he 
had the misfortune to lofe at. the age of fixteen: he was 
then 
