FRENCH SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 
ittm-The holy Vincent de Paul If, T ake P ] 
cel flog) Petes de la Chaife, confeffor to Louis 
Pier aniel’ Fiuet, bith p of Avranches, Te 
Bd Quoy, in is de Buc,. prieft of the congre- 
i me Scribes, ai er P. Simon, jengrayen in oe in folio, 
» in folio, Clat ide- 
re Menctriee, of the { 
Jean So painter and pene paint 
René 
rouvain é 
1707; painted by 
engraven by Antoine Trouvain, for his reception into the 
academy; alfo in folio. 
Pierre Drevet the elder was born at Lyons in the year 
1664, and died et in 1739. After receiving leffons in 
drawing, and in engraving a from Germain 
A.udran in his ae city, he went to Paris for improvement, 
and as Strutt with great probability Capalee, eerie = a 
time under Girard Edelink. e foon became 
mirable engraver of portraits, to which he chiefly confined 
his dena ae the — of his reputation was pro 
tionably r contributed to dpread cic 
Europe che eee oa the royal and noble perfonages of 
h of Hyacinthe Rigaud the portrait 
His ee of ‘he. Not which is angle . pv 
been the fole inftrument o art, was very 
oe is firm though eee and his A ey ane 
e drew well, and had the rare art of transfuling 
snuck, of the ftyle and. fing of the painter after whom he 
was working. - In fhort, the beauty of execution, ae 
ae truth tape in his portraits, prt si ed on them a 
trance of Jefus 
ompofitio n of Ant. 
are ane are « 
a grand c 
ifixion,’” with th 
rew, in 
folio, and ¢ uc e city of Jerufalem in 
the back one a rd = folio, engraved on two plates, | 
and infcribed P. Dre XCe 
His portraits are numerous, and excepting that of André 
Felibies, after Le Brun, eae ae in ato.) are of the folio 
fize. After N.de Largilliere he has engraven Jean Asian 
Maria de Lambefpine. Helena Lam- 
ric oe king of Poland, 
Nicholas Lamiber: 
bert, after F. de Troy. Freder 
and Nicholas Boileau Defpreaux, (a fmall folio.) After de 
Pelis, and after Vanderwerf, Oliver oo with at- 
t ribute But his mber and 
merit, are after 
H. Rig 
the‘e are omitted in the eollowin ng li 
erre, the mother of Rigaud. 
Nicholas Boileau Defpreaux. 
Hyacinthe _ 
Chriftina 
Ue 
leury. Maria, fovereign im Neufehatel, duchefs 
en. ae uis-Antoine, duke de 
the moft valued 
impreffions of which are before the piece was altered. 
Louis, dauphin of France,. Francis Louis de _Bouchon, 
aud, a it is Stored that few of c 
litt: qe 
prince of paris a whole length. Louis XIV. in his roya 
robes, a w ength figure. Louis XV, feated on 
the throne, © aa) in his, royal robes, companion.. sto ‘the 
rmer. 
o's 
Pierre Devert, the younger, the fon of the former, ‘was 
born at Paris in the year 1697, and died in the fame city 
1739, to that Europe loft both thefe admirable arti:ts in the 
i 5 at the age a ae he en ane his folio cae 
the Refurrection, and at the age of cine “he executed 
his celebrated whole length portrait of Boffu wet, which has 
ae been the admiration of Eur ere 
upon 
fion, all idea of eae is abforbed in the refpect due 
filial and parental feelings. Whena father transfers the fruits 
of his experience, and {ets before his for, as rudiments, the 
final refults of his own itudiés, nature fteps in and identifies 
their fame. 
His whole length Deans of Samuel Bernard is a ftill . 
more apes ng e effort of art and in both ih fabey the 
re expreffion of a furfaces of natural o fiefh, 
tions of beauty. 
Drevet did not, however, confine himfelf to portraits, but 
his abilities were perhaps lefs well adapted to the generalifed 
energies of hiftory, than to the details of portraiture; and 
it muft be acknowledged, even of his ‘ Prefentation of Chrift 
nthe Temple,’’ which is efteemed his mafterpiece, that its 
cae ral complexion,—probably from being e xecuted entirely 
with the graver and dry-needle,—is too metallic. 
» Cachi the engravings of Drevet the 
younger, ‘that they are admirable for delicacy and beauty of 
laboured for the character 
ween ier critics, who oc re 
hat bia : on ae cai by his exclufive pre- 
ference for a yr mode of-a 
The rincipal hillovical works of the j junior Drevet-are of - 
the folio clafs, and their fubjects as follow : 
Adoration . of the Shepherds,” after eine 
Rigaud. “A Holy Family,” which is inferibed «le a 
fait modelé de toutes tes familes Chretiens,’’ after Ant 
And from the fame matter ts “ as the Baptift repr cada 
‘Herod. 
