FRENCH SCHOOL 
that of Edelink. Huber ah that he poffeffed greater 
aig than he e njoyed reputation. 
orks of this artilt ‘which are beft known, are the 
iowa T 
tal, beneath which are feveral Saints, after a celebrated 
“ The 
au and riz iadne,?” after Po uffin. 
“ Condi ee T laa from Jtpiter,’’ after le Sueur, a 
circle. «The burning an page of the Veflels of 
Jineas,’’ and * The Death of Pallas,” both after Coypel. 
« The Refarrection of Chrift after Pp. Jac. Cazes. A fet 
of, “ The four Seafons,’’ after the fame painter, engraven 
y Beauvais and Defplaces. “The Pentecoit, or Defcent 
h irit,’’ after Frere Jean André. ‘ Elymas 
blind,” after fir Janes Thornhill. 
onument in honour of Wiliam Earl Cowper,” 
all of the folio clafs. 
Charles Nicholas Beauvais, the fon, was born at Paris in 
the year 1730, and generally engraved in besa with his 
ther. The only engravings whi-h are wn to have 
been executed by him alone, are as a alae of y ufte Aurele 
Mei — (an architect, a drawing by him- 
felf, and a. after F. Boucher, entilled “Sleep inter- 
rupted.” 
For the -_ of Le Sueur, who were celebrated en- 
peel on wood, and lived, fome of them, about this time, 
ee Woop Lugraving. 
Frederic Hortense was born at Paris fome time about 
the year e always refided in his native city, and 
appears to have ftu a ed in the fchool of Audran. Some 
few of his engravings have very little etching in n them, but 
in his beit prints he has more equally united the ufe of the 
point with that of the graver. They ieciengy ele in ftyle, the 
ettgravings of Benoit Audran are fomewhat more 
mellow, and-many of them poffefs pee iintek merit: he 
ow n cenfured by fome critics for the too 
abundant introduction of coarfe ae in his 
hi cae which were pri pally executed for the 
a 
the following will pr any be found 
moit defervin g he. attention of the colleé 
The portrait of Philip of Orleans, ae J. B. Santerre. 
“‘Chrift bearing his Crofs,’’ after Georgione, and ‘The 
Adoration of the Kings,’’ after P. Veronefe, bath engraved 
or the Crozat colleétion, «The Marriage of St. Cathe- 
rine,?” after the fame painter. <* The irth of St. John the 
Baptill,’’ after Tintoret. «¢Chrift and the Woman of S 
inaria,’’ after B for the Crozat collec- 
tion. murdered Brother,’ after 
Andrea Sacchi, engraved for the fame collection ; and “The 
Pentecoft, or Holy Ghoft defcending on ie. -Apoitles,’ 
after Gaudentio Ferrari, all of the folio clafs, but not very 
large 
a Madeleine Hortemels was born at Paris in the 
: = r thereabout ; according to Watelet fhe was the 
daughter of Frederic Hortemels ; but if the French writers 
ioe of Satin Nicholas Cochin the elder, and author of 
ing engravings, which are chiefly etchings Lae 
formed a freedom and {pirit, and finifhed with t 
gr phar 
“Merc oe Peace to the Mufes,’’ engrav 
{in a cele) from M. Corneille 8 one of the ane s 
Vou. XV. 
OF ENGRAVING. 
faloon at Verfailles: “ Penelope furrounded by her ian 
attendants,”? and “ Afpafia difputing sane the Grec 
Tidoinncs: are alfo after Michael Corneille. 
Afi . Bertin the has engraven St. Philip baptizing 
- Eunuch of ee Candace ; ”” and ie with 
the infeription  ** Quas a regio potuit.’’ ¢ The 
Triumph of Flora” is af Pouffin ; ae ‘¢ Franche~« 
omté,’’ conquered the fecond time, after Le 
rur 
* Don Quixotte with a Beard,’’ defigned by Cochin junior, 
oo engraven by his mother. « ‘The cha rming Catin,”’ after 
the fame, engraven by the fame. “The Singer of Canticles,’? 
The above are al 
after the fame, engraven by the fame. 
of the folio clafs. «* The d Lama and the kin 
an- 
’ for a. collection of f voyages y the fame sae in 
116. and the following folio i ee aio Hyacinthe Ri. 
gaud, namely, Henry de Thiard de Biffy, cardinal bifhop 
of Meat ux, and Gafton de Rohan de Soubic, cardinal bifhop 
of Strafbourg. 
Charles Michels ree the father, was born at Paris in 
ine year 1688, and in the fam ecity in 1754. He was 
the firtt of this name known as an engraver, being de- 
foended frem Nicholas Cochin cof Fro hie ae flourifhed 
about the middle of the feventeenth cen ary. 
The fubje&t of our prefent notice ae painting” till 
he attained the age cf twenty -two dees and afterward de- 
voted himfelf chiefly to engraving. was an excellent 
defigner, and engraved w ith much tafte and at pepe 
when the figures were of middle He ot 
t wa 
equally fuccefsful in thofe of la arger di ment crs, not mee 
ble, or not willing, to invigorate eel ig ftyle of 
execution, In his {mailer werks, his fhaduws are hatched. 
with a loofe and free hand, and ais fo orms drawn with much: 
of artift-lke feeling. Cochin publifhed a great number of 
prints, of which “we fhall only mention the moft cele 
ted. 
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The two portraits which he engraved for his a sae 
into the Royal Academy in of es 
Sarazin the elder, feulptor in ordinary to the 
Euttache le sade painter in ordinary ta Us eng 
foho. ‘* Alexander and Roxana,’’ 
The fame fubjed of the fame fize, 
the figures being without dra suoke s both o 
are int the Croat ¢ olleGtion. “He rcule 
quence,’’ and “ Calumry ,painted by 
ene by Raphael. It would appear that this pair of en- 
ravings on copper were combined with bi sonia ones 
by Nicholas le Sueur, and printe au : chiaro-feuro. «'The 
Infléxibility of St. Bafil before Motett, Px we of the Eaft,’ 
after Fr. le Moine.  “ Jacob difc near apse to Rachael 
on his Arrival in Mefopotamia,”’ after the e. Jace 
before Laban exculing himfelf for his Artifice,” after J. 
Reftout ; a companion print to the prec ceding. “The 
Deftruction of Armida’s Palace,’ after the fame. «* Jacob 
purfued by Laban,’’ after N. Bertin. ‘The Servant of 
Abraham accofting Rebecca,’’ after the fame. “ The Tri- 
ity,’’ and «The Affumption,’’ from two paintings by 
ee The oo of St. ee belie 
in feven plates, after L. Boullongne The e all of 
the folio _ {s, but ge ence. {mall, Th 1e rane flees are 
in 4to. Reception of a Biih der a Tent,’’ after the 
: prontilpiece ne the order of St. Michael, after the 
¢Vhe Lame cured,’’ after P. Jac. Cazes. 
of Flky-wo yee of the hiftory of Languedoc, after the 
fame. enerofity of Harmonia, Daughte terof Gelon, 
OM of Syracue,” with an hiltorical eg after J. 
. M, Pierre. “ onverfation Piece arden,” after 
the fame painter, in fmall folio. The piles are all after. 
Watteau, and in folio, Two plates of “ Italian Comedians 
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