FRENCH SCE tOOL OF appa 
en the Stage.’’ Another pair of “ Love in the French 
Theatre,’ and “ Love in the Italian Theatre.’ The 
flying Camp,”? and “ Return from the Campaign.” “A 
Detachment of Soldiers making a «The Grove of 
Bacchus,”’ and ‘ fs ae Bride,’’ a capital piece both 
of the painter and e 
Charles Nicholas. fochin the fon, was bo orn at Paris in 
cclebrated 
t happy d: en ar.d 
and {e a. Circumstances con- 
talents for the arts of 
curred to haften the dopa of his faculties. He 
was the fon of Charles Nicholas Coc hin and of Marie Made- 
leine Hortemels, and received from them inflruétions in art, 
along with the other branches of his education, which was 
conduéted under the paternal roof. He gave many proofs 
at a very early age of the. r pidity of his progrefs in arts 
and letters. I 1740 he waliiee I in pee re the 
was very W¢ cll re inpartial part of the public, 
but the tains, cers delighted at difplaying their 2 nea 
treafures san ne eye of ikrans gers, were — efs indigna 
that any one fhould prefume criticize t cme 
cero Lae blamed the sale a the fevere ftyle i in et 
his criticifms are delivered. But however this may be, the 
work in queftion is, even at prefent, deemed the be id guide to 
travellers who wifh to attain a knowledge of the works of 
art in Italy. x O 
fervations upon the A. culaneum, &c.”’ b M. 
M. Cochin and Bellicard, which poffeffes the advantage of 
containing a great number of beautiful fubjeés of antiqui- 
ties engraved with great {pirit by the authors. 
On hi urn to his native country this artift was 
created a chevalier of the order of St. Michael, defi igner to 
the king, and 7 to the academy of painting. Equall 
fkilfulas an engraver, and as 
to above oe pais ee fubjects, of which oe hundred and 
twelve are portraits en medallion of the qua 
which were his friends, and other Liinguithed artifts and 
men of letter 
e mode a art which he entployed on his plates was 
chiefly etching, and his etchin ng ha t be faid:- to confift 
ntir med with tafte and free- 
ms and combined with a degre of ad ie 
fancy, and Hitorical productions are as fo Vs 
” after 7 de Troy, in folio. 
id playing on ie Har be fore a ?? after Carlo 
loo, in folio. «* Abraham receiving Hagar | by the Advice 
of Sarah,” after the fame. “ Grand Views of the Sea-ports 
large p pri 
empire, ie 
ror, to be engra 
e di San “oe this naonal work was committed to 
Cochin, who diftributed them, in order to be engraven under 
his aufpices, to the following artifts: J. Aveline, Aug. i St. 
Aubin,. Ch. le Bas, J. p. ee N. de L2un 
ina, eee Si 
kebay and Caitiglione. ‘T’he a being fent to China, as 
and wrought oi, proofs of them were not 
6 be: obtained by the public. Only a {mall number — 
referved for the royal family, and the king’s library, 
Helman the eipae executed a few copies of a hae 
anion to 5 this workis “ Ob-. 
er 
a defigner, his works amounted. 
aioe ianed Miracles.” «6 Luci 
drawn from the antique flatue, in 4to. 
tion of Louis XV. at Rheinis,’’ for the medallic hiftory by 
Godensche, in 4to. Decoration for the aed ys and 
ee Fire Works in honour of the Dauphin, at Meudon, 
3 Hhumination | and artifici 
£7 ecoration for the iifleia 
Fi re Wor ks at Verfailles,” 17 “ Perfpective view 
of the Illumination in the Ru: Tones in 1729,”° all. 
folio. ‘ Decoration of the Saloon, conftructed at Ver. 
favlesy » for the Reprefentation of « The Pr incefs of Navarrc,’’ 
acomic piece, in honour of the nuptials of Louis Dauphin. 
of Trance, with ode tna ae Infanta of Spain, cn the 
2cth of Pebruary Ty4g.? ted by Slodtz ad Perot, 
defigned and engraven by Coch n. .* Ceremony of the 
Marriage of the Dauphin with the Infanta of Spain, in 174.5," 
engraven in 1746. Funeral Obfequies of the Dauphinels 
t. Denis, in 1746.” ees 10 Danphinefs. 
in oie church of N: vtre-Dam Pant 1746.” «Tuneral 
Ceremony a ~ King - "Spa in t the pe of aes 
Dame a 174.6. ral Ceremony of a ering, 
Opalinfka, Queen of Poland, in ihe Church ef Net Dae 
at “Paris, de ae and etched by Cochia the ea “finithed 
with the graver by J. Cuvrier, all in folio ; anda {mall plate. 
of a jeweller a a cluiter of precious ones, being the firft 
plate her he engraved from his own 
eft portraits of Cochin aa are “Francie Berallus, 
Tarvifinas, abbax, engraven in Louis de Boiffy, of 
.the French Academy. Edme Boiecion, Tease I 
e Caylus, amateur. The abbé de Chauvelain, coun-. 
fellor of ve parliament. Charles Duclos, hiftoriographer. 
ate ee ag finger. e fame portrait fimfhed by. 
e aa = Marigny, ca in 
1752, under the title Marquis de Vaudier and. 
Snithed in 1757, under that of Cos, Pierre de i. "Place 25 
of the Academy. The abbé Pommier, counfeilor of the 
Parliament. Jean Reftout, painter of the Academy. A. 
L. Seguier, advocate general. The ie a be Valliere, of 
the £ ciences. Prin 
ce enne, amateur. 
who lived at ne Gm now under our 
obfervation, his various antiquarian hala his love of tke 
arts, the fimplicity of his 
ath we ae ene 
time, which ure to 
them to th e fanaa of, ee rity. ia muft now be acknow- 
ledged that he could not, even with the meee of Bou- 
chardon, draw with arena accuracy to etch from the 
feulptured gems o tiquity ; thor aks in imitating the 
fketches of the old matters, and the oo of Leo- 
a _ pie he een far more fucce 
cording ] “Mariett 
thoufand two hundred fubjeGis, of which we fhall “proceed 
to name the principal. They are aetues marked either 
with ve letter C. or in fome inftances C. de 
ter oe ella Be ella. 
sand fketches - ‘th e 
a ing of France. 
= ree from ee em y Bouchardon, etched by 
de C., and ae with i graver by Le Bas, on ten 
quarto plates. Six e plates of myeloeil fubjects; 
compofed by Boviedss etched by C. de C., and-termi- 
nate 
