FRENCH SCHOOL 
affeGtionately, and rifing up from his place, offered te put his 
palette and pencils into the hands of his gueft, but La Fage c 
refufed, dec a n e did not underftand fe management 
the art, becaufe you could have 
He led a loofe, hee life, which hic repeated ene 
put anend to, A.D. 1690; he being only at the age of 
forty-two. 
It is here to be obferved that Strutt dates - ath in the 
year 1648, and the French writers in 1654 5 was 
born in 1654, and died in ag he could aa ie. been 
-‘thirty-fix years of age at the time of his. deat 
a Fage ete a esnidee be number of {mall plates 
from od own compofitions, which are marked with the eafe 
and ene f a mafter lay ie “all of the angels, 
and his feel Aare and proceffions. The follow- 
ing, which are in folio, are among his moft efteemed preduc- 
tions : 
another 
uildren ;"’ 
pent,’” and. es The Fall of the An nah 
‘Francois Andriot, or Handriot, was born at Paris ab 
' 6 e engraved both in France, uring his a 
cg France, and d 
n Italy, ‘various fubjects after cet celebrated painters 
doce — s. His ftyle refembled that of Fr. de Poilly, 
-but his dudctions WA — in point of effect to thofe 
of that Lae is prints are, however, fought 
i PY = connotes on account of . e sd ra of = 
vhict engraved. beft works 
eit in ‘folio, ‘and their fubje as Sages ow: 
‘6 The Virgin fitti on her Knees the Infant 
Jefus, to be the Tittle St. John prefents a Rofe,”’ after 
p an oval. “The Virgin fuckling the Infant 
Jefus, attended by an Angel,” alter Guido, an oval.“ 
_Magdalen,’’ after the fa «¢ Chrift crowned with 
Thorns,” after Ann. Carracci, without the name of the 
« Chrift fcoffed at,. and crowned with 
‘©The Madonna and 
Child, with St. Michael and St. Marguerite,’ anonymous. 
_# The ood Samaritan,’’ after Poulin, a large ae 
Incredulity of St. Thomas,”’ after iene, 2 arge p 
‘¢ Efther ia fing cicrastlei , aie Sim. Gilat 
«6 The ing at Cana,’ erthe fame. “P t. Gre- 
gory ae before the Altar in a Chapel, ee Koes Eccle- 
fiattics ftanding on n the Clouds.’’ “ Jean Everhard, cardinal 
Niclard,”” after Jonas de la Bonde, engraven in 1672, and 
fome of the ftatues publifhed at Rome by sap in eck 
Jean-Baptifte t Paris in 
ettled in his own country. 
' Mariette was a native of wane: and ftudied paint. 
ing” — his brother-in-law J. B. Corneille, but by the 
advice of Le Brun quitted that purfuit, and applied hinfelf 
to deligning and engraving. He alfo carried on a confider- 
ble merce in prints. Scie of his compofitions poffefs 
The heads of “his figures are oftea 
conte merit. 
Vor. XV. 
“ — t 
OF ENGRAVING. 
pelts dy gl apse his drawing, though canoe is eee in 
He worked both 4 vith the grave e 
needle, aad iy a of sagas is coarfe a flight. He 
ied at Paris in the y iw 1742. 
auations of Mariette are as follow : 
nowiki,”’ in folio. 
after Dominichino, i in folio. 
ferved b airs 
Siar 
- Louis receiving 
r J. Bs Corneille, in folio. «St. 
”” after the fame. 
nnoiffeur, was the fon of 
Jchn, and eta a few plates after Guetching, Carracci, and 
Perin del Va Fe was born at Paris in 1694, died there in 
1774, and the meee fale of his cabinet took place in the 
year 197 
Benoit Thibo cl was born - Sac: A. D. 
h 
the ae Meee 
oF 
of pee plates after F. Gaetano, f 
«Vita beati Turribii, Archiepifcopi Limani in Inds be 
lifhed in gto. at Rome A. I 
Extacy on the Chua w hile 2 an Angel is preparing to pier 
her Bofom with a flamin Dart,” after Beane in *Felio, 
= fa Statue of St. Bibiene in a Niche,’ t 
olio 
a 
mM 
is 
Hy 
i 
"after the fa 
«The C i 
-Jean e yer, marquis of Aiguilles, oe 
general of ie parliament of Aix, in Provence, wa rn 
Aix in 1660, 
rucifxion 
friendfhip with the celebrated Pu uget, he acquired, in his 
intercour fe with that feilful an, a tatte i or the- fine arts, 
defi igner, painter 
During a oe which he undertook, to ten, and after 
his re turn o Aix, he formed 
{culptures, eee and i 
delight. He cau 
publifhed : about the eer a of the laf century 
not fatisfied with the firft edition, he brought an ati ‘com 
Antwerp, a pee ee wi engraved anew the whole 
cabinet, which was publifhed in 1744. 
Thefe plates having foe ds fallen into the poffeffion 
S bi Francois Baflan, he foldthem as the colleGion of 
g 
or 
el-Sart 
Two aa of Jefus Chrift chen young beavis on te 
fam 
