FRENCH SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 
Herod for having efpoufed his Brother’s Wife ;’ 
«¢' The Entrarice of Jefus Chrift into Jerufalem.” 
« The E 
Tranfgreffion, 
fions, engraven with the utmoft delicacy. “ce Abra 
‘about tote crifice his Son Ifaac,”” engraven in 1707. “ ‘The 
Servant of Abraham with Rebecca ’ the Well.”’ < The 
of the irgin,”’ e fame piece under 
> and, 
His principal portrai:s are alfo in lie cy are ae ed 
Francis de oo de-la Mothe Fenelon, archbith 
Cambra r Jean Vivien. Fiancis Paul de Neuville de 
Villeroy, archbithop of ‘Lyons, after J. Santerre. aude 
a 
Je Blanc, m of after Ad. le le Louis, 
duke of Orleans "after oypel. Adria ale Coan 
in the part of Co vaalice ‘after the fame, a diflinguihhed 
iece. Fouls XV. in his youth, conduc by Minerva to 
the temple of Glory, after Ant. Coypel. Dom Arnoul de 
Loo, fuperior-gen2ral of the congregation of St. Maur, 
after Jouvenet. Nicolas-Pierre Camus oo firft 
prefident of the parliament of Rouen, a a — Th 
Wife of the Pretender, Davids pinx. 
Jacqies de Vertamont, bifhop of Co aa. oo Fr. d 
Troy. Robert Cotte, firft intendant of pare ings, gardens, 
arts, and manufaAures of the king, &c. painted by Rigaud, 
and engraven by P. D 
Pucelle, abbé and counfellor of the parliament, after. the 
Guillaume, cardinal Dubois, archbifhop of Cam- 
“Tiaacs 
iked beneath. edie ae gue Boffuet, 
bilhon of M a whole length figure, after the fame, of 
which we have a fpoken 
Claude Drevet, firft comin to the preceding, was born 
at Lyons in 1710, ied at Paris in ee Educated 
he Drevet, he diftinguithed himfelf by erigraving portraits, 
in which he imitated the ftyle of his coufins with confider- 
ane fuccefs. Fis oe works are in folio, and are the 
i e Bret, as Ceres. Henry Ofwald, 
in theology, abbé of Pontignan, is after Adrien le Prieur. 
Antoine Rivalz was born at Touloufe in the year 1667, 
and died in the fame city in 1735. He was the fon o 
Jean-Pierre Rivalz, who was both architect and painter, 
nee 
clared the fuccefsful candidate, was crowned in the apie 
by cardinal age sear pope Clement 
‘recalled from y his father, mas died a ‘hort ‘ine 
after his eral os Tos - 
He poffeffed confiderable talent at imitating the works of 
toine, and etc 
from th 
other artifts, and even when: le meant _ to-be original, his 
se refembled either the compofitions of Pouffin or thofe 
of La Fa 
The fo owas {pirited etchings are by his hand, and 
from his own compofitions: “ Truth driving away the 
‘Vices, the Enemies to Art and Science,” an allegory to the 
memory of Pouffin, infcribed to Le Bru n. ‘'The Mar- 
tyrdom of St. Sympherianus,” a eu tilog aves plate, 
nearly {quare ; and four {mall ON tabi ects, = a trea- 
tife on painting which epee publifhed at oe 
Bartholomew Riva s nephew and lof An- 
ed the follow ring tana in fall lis: chiefly 
e compofitions of his uncle: 
“ «The Fall of the r cae Angels,” | ine painting of 
which is at Narbonne. “ Pxtus and Arria;’’ “ Cleopatra;’’ 
« Judith and Holofernes ;’’ “ Jofeph a the Wife of 
Potiphar ;”? “ The Death of Mary Magdalen,”’ after Be- 
nedetto Lutti, a fmall upright. - 
E Jéaurat was born at Paris about 1672, and died 
in the fame city in 1738. il of B. Picart, 
and, like his mailer, poifeffed the happy talent of feizing 
the fpirit of the great pai ‘orks he copied. 
Speaking of this engraver, Dan re 
he transfufed all the fire of Du Mole into “ The Flight 
into Egypt,’? which he engraved after this mafter ; the pic- 
turefque beauties of Paul Veronefe into his « Finding of 
Mofes ;’’ the fpirit of Vleughel into his of « Achilles 
plunged into the Waters of the Styx ;’’ and the graces of 
Le Clere ae his print of « Achilles connized by Ulytfies 
in - Palace ycomedes. 
rutt has confounded ce bakes with, Etienne = 
the oe nter, an error which it is the more neceflary to cor- 
ret, fince ane was a very aaa: artilt; incor. ier in 
his defign, cold in his execution, and whofe knowledge did 
not extend beyond the mere mechanifin of his a: 
he principal works of Edme Jeaurat are the dg iioae 
of Nicolas Vleughel, a Parifian painter, after Ant. Pe 
engraven in 1726. Pierre Pujet, painted by Pujet ae fons 
both in folio. Eight fables of Fontaine, after Etienne 
Jeaur 
After N. Vienghel ye “ The Meeting of Abi- 
gail and David. He e Refurrection of our Saviour,’’ 
engraven in'1718. “ Thetis plunging Achilles into the 
Waters of the Styx.” elemachus in the Ifle a- 
lypfo,”’ engraven in 1724, all of the folio clafs. A fet of three 
plates of ¢ oman Maiden,’ « A Virgin of Frefeati 
near —. eae & reek Woman ina Pilgrimage 
engrav 1734, in i rto. ‘ Jefus Chrift in 
»: 
Doétors,”” | 
« Achilles Bara of the 
Daughters of Lyco medes,” after Le Clerc. “ Jupiter 
enamoured of a Nymph,” after the fame. John the Bap- 
obelin tape’ tries, reprefenting. “The Red 
City of Marfa ‘ The Interview in the Ifle of 
fants;’’ and « The Cereniony of the Marriage of Louis X1V.”’ 
But the three following prints in the calleétion of bette 
are the moft celebrated eae avige of J eaurat, and - are 
the folio clafs, name y> ‘ e — iew of Ja ace ‘ob aad 
—, after : pau intin ing YF. ola, *: Repofe 
during ‘the Fligh Egypt,” Fo the fime. *. "The 
finding of Mo bs ane Paul Véronefe. 
Claude 
