FRENCH SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 
and died in the ci ity of Paris in 1763. He ac cada i 
meas of his art in his native city from an obfcu 
graver of the name of Robert Hecquet, and ances rar a 
vifiting Paris for improvement; he there fo far diftinguifhed 
himtelf, as to be admitted a member of the French ny 
Strutt fays he worked entirely with the 
s persormances {ufficiently manifeft the great 
‘graver, and ‘his 
es are laid 
command he had of that inftru ument. is fro 
oO tt performances the wore ever pro 
“who 18 calle holdin ‘ portrait of Mi nard the 
painter; and his moft etteemed hiftorical eile which 
are of the folio clafs, are thofe which follow 
The celebrated recumbent agdalen of Corregio, 
‘engraved e Drefden gallery. “ Diogenes with 
his Lantern,’”? after Efpagnolet. “ The Two Sons of 
— 
‘ ne allaying the Tempeft,” from 
Virgil, after Rabon: a large plate «A Ch 
a bano = The Tri 
cher. A pair of prints dedicated to 
Madaine | po of « 'T : four Seafons,’’ after the 
fame. ‘“ The of Latona,”’ after J. Jou 
easier in Port,” 
Death bel,” after Dietrich, engrav 761. 
“6 ieee on the Banks of a Riven a Tandfeape after the 
fame. “ Repofe of Verms and the Graces at the Bath,” 
‘after J. Raoux. “ The Du after the fame. 
“« The Magic Lantern,” 
moft -efteemed portraits by Daulle are thofe of 
' Catherine oo countefs de Feuquicres, holding the 
portrait of h ther. P. Mignard pinx. J. Daulle, fe. 
1735. is 5 fir < work of importance, Hyacinthe cee 
trait, and that of 
feated at his eafel, painting his o 
ulle 
Charles Paws urd Stuart, eldeft fon of 
‘the Pretender, without his name, the head painted by an 
"anonymous artifl, and the drapery by Rigaud, engraven in 
1744. ‘Clementina, princefs of Po land; (wife fo) Pre- 
‘tender,) after David ; co and the preceding are both rare 
‘prints, Frangois Febur de Lembriere, bifhop cf Soiffons, 
eng 1736. eae Patot, abbé of iy Genevieve, 
F. D. Emanuel Pinto, grand mafter engraven in 
1744. Gerard beeing kcal and fy ae of Rotter- 
“dem, after we onneau, engra 1903. Po rtrait o 
ie urt of Caas ay (which ‘his ‘friend Routfe au caufed 
o be engraven at Paris,) painted by Moan: engraven 
riette, e 
-1708, and 
cass ; ee 
by Daulle 1754. Charles-Alexander de Lorraine, after 
Meytens. Jean Baptiite Rouffeau, after J. Aved. Pierre 
Louis Moreau de Maupertvis, an hiftorical portrait, after 
R. Tourniere. oe ar at an opera adtrefs, 
as Flora, after H. Drou of Frederic-Gufavus 
If]. king of Poland, a - at Drefden by Silveftre, en- 
graven by J. Daulle engraver to the a and Jean Ma- 
engraver, after Pe ne, all in fol: 
ee Philippe le Bas was burn a Paris in the year, 
died there in e was the difcirle of 
N. Tardicu, ‘and diftinguifhed himfelf at an early period of 
life by producing a great number of beautiful prints, con- 
- fitting of land{capes, “and of land{capes peopled with {mall 
pattoral or domeltic figures, fuch as thofe of Wouvermass 
which : eee the intereit they excite, 
i xpreffive touch, than upon 
fae yrowefls difplayed in their 
o 
the anatomical or 
outlines, 
Watelet endeavours to account for the early and extenfive 
reputation of Le Bas, than whem no engraver in Europe 
etter known, by fuppofing it to have been owing to 
the. great number of prints to whic : i affixed his name, 
any of which he allows were of i erior merit 
work of his pupils. “ Fully perfua vee ”* (he fays, 
a very fmall number of réal connoiffeurs nite 
conceived, that he would ae ene the beft are who 
put his name to the greatedt number of plates ; and oe oS 
a he acquired evinced that he had not 
ceive - But his fame would have been more lating. had he 
acknow wledge 
be 
e Bas 
mong . thofe pete 
who have been defervedly celebrated fe their tafte. His 
finifhing touch, - piquant, and {pirited Ae oe 
ofe prints, whic 
i as the arf, 
after Rem who ee point, 
and his pupils have fince x brought the on of a valuable 
toot to fill greater oe ction. 
There is c a much ee in thefe obfervations of 
wee vbably os > moft pene: 
redeceffors to bring 
; but itis alfo to be 
remarked that he had a his ae fore pupils, or rather 
journeymen, of the very. firft tafte and talent, among whom 
were Aliamet, Ralod Laurent, oa others who are pro- 
bably ftill living. . 
Laurent was an Englifhman who died in Paris ofa 
oe) 
ofa, fome large and fine plates after 
erghem, an eae ge of the very beft plates that ap- 
pear with the n f Le 
Le Bas was a man of f cal ha bite and manners, and 
geod addrefs, yet his oe en induftry was great, 
‘the lift of his won numerous, from which the following 
are felected, 
book containing eight quarto plates of military fi gures 
Ab ook containing eight quarto plates of fafhions ; a pair 
in i. entitled « The Villagers,” and The ‘ Vintagers,’? 
a pair 
