FRENCH SCHOOL 
In moft ofhis prints, he employed the aid of SS ; 
he drew with confiderable ability, and his works in gene 
indicate, that - ere a aaa k cnowledge of his a 
Crozat cabinet. Ptolemy Phila- 
peel to the ane * after Ant. Coypel. 
aufine Corn to be diftributed to the 
.Romans,”’ after the fame both uprights. The apd other 
fubje&ts, which, with the two precedin forma fet, were en- 
graven by Duchange. "Tee prints, reprefenting ‘ ‘Air? and 
« Earth,” ee L. de Boullogne, in folio. he aoe 
others, “ Fire,’ and “ Water,” (which. complete the fet 
of four elements ) were engraven by Sree “Dis as 
Charles Dae alfo ea after the paintings of Eu- 
ftache Le Sueur, in the hotel du Chatelet,from drawings by 
B. Picart, shar b _ Duc 8 
pations o refent Age, 
© The. Le ffon of tae after the fame, and 
a The pte Hufband,’’ A& V. fcene latt, after Nic. 
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is moft efleemed erage are ne ‘of Jean Pittard, 
Cece to king St. . Ch. Dupuis del. et fc. in 8vo. 
Lorratne, fe ‘of Guife, ter a the Gah, after 
aie and Madam 
veftal, after Raoux. 
Nicolas Gabriel Dupuis, the brother of Charles, was born 
-at Paris about the year 1696, and oy in the fame city in 
Eh He was at firft a dyer, an ae was a long time a 
engraving o He was 
fo extremely nade ft, that 
a member of the academy ; “pat anor 
graving from Duchange, and executed fome plates for the 
gallery of Verfailles, after Le Brun, from defigns by Maffe, 
Be at length became better known, and his own merit, 
feconded by the intereit = Le Brun, introduced him to the 
eG, gases of Fran 
rits were Sie infe rior to thofe of his elder 
broth ; per his ty le, in the earlier part of his career, was 
the fame ; but difcovering that ie fteams of aquafortis im- 
paired he health, he ever after worked with the graver 
alone, handling that inftrument with much freedom and fa- 
cility. 
' Like his brother. he engraved both portraits and hiftori- 
eal aa &s ; of which the following are the moft celebra- 
after Dom Feti. “Amu fen 
ment of faftoral Life,” fter Georgione, for the Crozat col- 
‘JeGtion. The Adoration “of the Kings,” afte r Paul Veronefe, 
alfo for the Crozat collection. “The De athof Lucretia,’’after 
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“e “The Guardian ae ” 
in the ard " ag Carlo Ma- — 
« Pt 
OF ENGRAVING. 
Guido. “St. Sebattian,”’ after L. Carrac eects in 170, 
« The Virgi 
in the ci y of Pen executed by the fame, in 
folio. 
Jean Du Vivier, or De Vivi er, an engraver chiefly of 
dies for coins and medals, was hors at Liege ein 1687, and 
‘died at Paris in 1761. ame to Paris, and was admit- 
ted a member of the Roe 1 Academy in i718 He alfo 
_received a pention from Low nd apartments in the 
gallery of the Louvre. 
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n ftatue of this Prince, ere&ted in 
Place de Bore UX, = hoc of the king at different ages, 
and that of Peter the 
Delicacy and. fpirit charaterized - the productions of 
Vivier ; gentlenefs and modefty the prominent fea- 
tures of his moral cha: eee He en eed with the fame 
ap on copper. His prints are all ether micah; Giovan, 
r G. de Vivier fecit. 
The fo sma ew sae prodution of this artift, 
are very rec 
The por 
Temptation of St. Anthony.”? In this print the venera- 
ble faint is feen knéeling before = Raptia defk, rejeQing 
the folicitatisns of a maquerelle \ the wings of a bat, 
who is pointing to a courtefan ay attired. This is a 
very rare and curious work, ~ 
icolas Dauphin de Beauvais was born at Paris in 1687, 
and died in the fame city in 1763. 
Beauvais was the ee of Jean Audran, and the fon-in- 
sik of Gafpar Duchange 
om the cir etn of his having engraved one of the 
fees of pictures which fir James Thornhill painted for 
the cathedral church of St. Paul, the French writers on 
rat 
in Lon oh. 
The ftyle of Beauvais varied at different periods. of ie 
life, and i in his beft v gon bears confiderable refemblance to 
that 
