A trio of eighteenth century French engravers of portraits in miniature. Ficquet, Savart, Grateloup (1899)
Andrews, William Loring, 1837-1920 · New York [Dodd, Mead & Co.] · leaf 114
of one ofhis eyes. The last strokes of his burin were thefinishing touches upon his Bossuet, en pied, en-graved in 1771, when he was thirty-five years ofage, and when we examine this portrait, writesGeorges Duplessis, we are not surprised to learnthat the engraver died blind. This affliction did… … \H<°/?}-esentedin t/arrole or COfiACEL/A in Ccrncillt!s3fc-rTdcI<?r,ipe<?Ac( VScerieJ- JEAN-BAPTISTE DE GRATELOUP cunning artisans wrought out for the curled andpowdered beauties of that luxurious age, whodemanded the most elegant and artistic articlesof personal adornment that taste and…
Ficquet, Étienne, 1719-1794 · Savart, Pierre, b. 1737 · Grateloup, Jean Baptiste de, 1735-1817 · Engraving
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