FRENCH SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 
Claude Gillot was born at Langres in 1673, and died at 
Paris in 1722. is father, who was a painter, communi- 
of which che was 
aptifte Corneille 
Fauns, fatyrs, and other comie ana fatirical fubj ects were 
the favourites ef his pencil. On account, oweres, of fome 
- productions which he executed, of a more ferious character, 
he was admitted into the Academy of Painting in 1715. 
Gillot had the honour of giving ae to the celebrated 
Waiteau ; but they feparated after a ime, as is faid, 
cat ed le 4 
His pictures are now nit ne his dra 
oS are ftill fought after by the curious 
incipal works of Claude G: Hlot are in {mall folio, 
and oa “fubjeets as follow: «* The Feftival of Diana in- 
rs,’ Cl. Gillot fecit. «° Feaft of caer 
wings and 
F 
rf n > id. fec. 
< Feftival of the God Faunus,”’ = fc. Thefe Ce are all of 
the fame fize, and forma fet: the plates for the fables of 
La Motte Houdart are alfo by Gillot. 
Nicholas Henry Tardieu was born at Paris A. D. 1674, 
and died in the fame city in 1749. He ftudied under. Le 
Pautre — i 
ac nthe 20, and in 
aed fiona career iad eel ay excellent engravings, and 
e able pupils, arnong whom were Cars, B. 
B- aron, Le Bas, ie Tardieu the fon 
Tardieu was a good draft{man, sad brought his plates very 
forward in the etching, finifhing them afterwards with the 
‘hatchings with regular courfes of lines. 
epth of tone in his prints, and in general a vigorous 
tolerabl well harmonized chiaro-fcuro. He was engaged 
nthe execution of fome of the moft celebrated works of 
his time, fuch as the colleGtions of Crozat and of Verfailles, 
and the pictures of Le Brun. 
is numerous hiftorical engravings, which are in gcne- 
ral of the folio dimenfions, “the following will be found the 
moft remar able : 
jou) 
of grand friezes, the one ha saan the family 
of ane kneeling before hirn other, the taking 
of Carthage by Scipio, after Julio oman, Anothe er pair 
f. large friezes, after the fame matter, one ee the 
‘continence. of Scipio ; the other Scipio rewarding his fol- 
diers. ‘“ Jupiter enamoured mena,’ after the fame 
painter. “ The Annunciation,’’ after lo Maratti. « A 
Holy amily,’’ in ema the Virgin is feen a ae 
after André oe uigi d’ Afi fe. dae and Eve after the Fall, " 
-from a painting of Dominichino, in the poffeflion of the duke 
of Dev Cie oneof the moft beautiful prints of Tardieu, and 
engraven with much more precifion than the fame fubje&t a 
Baudet. « The Scourging of Chrift,”’ after Le Brun 
‘folio. “ Chrift'on the Crofs, at the Foot of which are toon 
ter the 
three figures, after the fame. “ 
te Brun in the war faloon at 
our, and Prudence,” the four chief quahties of a 
fi 
feo Nie. 
* Jefus appearing to Mary Magdalen as a Gardener, 
or 
se « Noli me tangere,”’ after the fame, 
m of St. Peter,” after Seb. Bourdon. 
wae or pe Parrocel. « St. 
Dulin n. ‘ The Subutation of the 
in the eats of the 4 
“ The Mar artyr= 
« A Crucifixion,” 
harles Boromeus,’ ’ after 
Virgin,” after a painting 
\ffumption, by Ant. Coypel: 
rom the fame mafter Tardieu has Gees « Vulcan 
fae Venus the Arms prepared for AEneas.’’ © Venus 
in the Affembly of the es Sy ag Jupiter in favour 
of neas.’”’ <‘¢ Juno folici Eo lus to raife a Tem. 
pelt againit the Vleet of /Eneas ;’’ which three prints 
make part of -a feries engraven after the paintings os th 
e 
sae of fEneas in the Palais Royal. * Apollo and 
Daphne.”’ A pair of capital Saas of « ‘The Contett 
between Agamemnon and Achilles ;” and “ The Parting of 
pe and Andron ah ache,’’ and nh pair from the {tory 
of Cupid and Pfyc 
From the ae of Watteau he has engraven “ C The 
embarrafling ieee 3? «© Paftoral P 
Elyfian Fields ; 
= from 
eat. 
Flizabe th-Claire Tourna wife of N. H. Tardieu, alfo 
dittinguithed herfelf by ee the follow mg ne 
« The ” after J. Fide Tro 
h. Hutin 
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Bg 
vs 
co 
we 
e Muftard 
A pair of « 'The "Charitable 
Lady,”’ an ee se Catechifing Prieft,”” after P, Dumefnil, 
the fon. “ -An Old Coquette,” after the fame, and 
« Tranquil Sleep,’’ after Et. Jenurat, all in folio 
Jaques-Nicholas Tardieu, the fon, was born at Paris in 
1718, and was alive in 1789. Being educated by his ae 
ie affifted in‘the execution oP feveral large 
onally occupied himfelf both with oe 
gr aving portraits v and ier cal fubjects, 
His wife, Louifadu Vivier, who was the daughter of the 
celebrated medalle of that name, andis well known for feveral 
refpeCtable engravings. 
ee ae isa lift of a few of the beft works of J. N. 
Tar 
ae Tefu s Chrift appearing to the Virgin,” after Guido. 
“¢ A Magdalen in the Defart,” after Paul Pagani. 
Saviour curing the Paralytic,”’ ary Reftout. 
AGeon,” after Fr. Boucher. «* M 
of Andefley Schovel,”’ afer ike fame, Th mifhr 
Breakfaft,’’ and « The Alchemift,”” two empanion prints, 
after D. Teniers. ** The Mileries of Lidell after the fame. 
Two landf{capes, entitled “ The Sweeper,’ and “ The 
ruits of Autumn,’ ’ after Cochin the ral all of the folio clafs. 
He has likewife e engra ed fea ear with his father, feve- 
ral frontifpieces and vigne after Cochin, as well as feve- 
ral fubjeéts for the colleStion of the gallery of Verfailles, 
from the drawings of Maffe, after Le R. 
is be ft portraits are in ‘folio, and fase thofe of Robert 
by th 
ri, prince Gallitzin, 
ambaflador extraordinary con the court of Ruffia to that 
of Vienna, after oe the fon. The archbifhop of Baur- 
deaux, after Reftou 
Pierres 
