Étienne Fessard, a French
engraver, was born in Paris in 1714. He was a pupil of
Edme Jeaurat
Edme Jeaurat (1688–1738) was a French engraver from Vermenton, near Auxerre.
Jeaurat was the son of an engraver and the elder brother of painter Etienne Jeaurat. His father took young Edme to Paris and apprenticed him to Bernard Picart. After w ...
, and proved an artist of sufficient merit to be accepted for candidacy (''agréé'') at the
Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture
The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (; en, "Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture") was founded in 1648 in Paris, France. It was the premier art institution of France during the latter part of the Ancien Régime until it was abol ...
(1753). A protegé of
''le comte de'' Caylus, whom he may have assisted in the development of skill in etching, Fessard received the appointment Engraver of the King's Library (''graveur de la Bibliothèque du Roi'') in 1756, with responsibility for the engravings of the royal collection of paintings and drawings, as a result of Caylus' influence. On his death in 1777, the position was given to his student
Augustin de Saint-Aubin
Augustin de Saint-Aubin sometimes styled Auguste de Saint-Aubin (3 January 1736 – 9 November 1807), belongs to an important dynasty of French designers and engravers.
Biography
Augustin de Saint-Aubin was born on 3 January 1736 in Paris to the k ...
. Fessard executed a considerable number of plates, but his efforts to resume the engraving of the King's paintings did not obtain the support of the ''Acadmie royale'' and resulted in only two plates: "Feste Flamande" after Rubens and "L'Empire de Flore" after Poussin.
[Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Estampes et des Photographies, ''Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIIe siècle'', t. 9 (1962), pp. 22-112 (1260 nos.), in particular, no. 404 (pp. 88-92) and no. 1235 (p. 107).]
Portraits
*''
Hortensia Mancini, Duchess of Mazarin''; after
Ferdinand.
*''Marie Madeleine de Lavergne,
Countess de La Fayette''; after the same.
*''
J. P. de Bougainville, of the French Academy''; after
C. N. Cochin.
*''The
Marquis de Mirabeau
Victor de Riqueti, Marquis de Mirabeau (5 October 1715, Pertuis13 July 1789, Argenteuil) was a French economist of the Physiocratic school. He was the father of Honoré, Comte de Mirabeau and André Boniface Louis Riqueti de Mirabeau. He was, i ...
''; after
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;A family of painters :
*Jacob van Loo (1614–1670), Dutch painter
*Louis-Abraham van Loo (1653-1712), Dutch-born French painter, son o ...
.
*''The
Duke de Choiseul''; after the same.
Subjects after various masters
*''Diana and
Actaeon
Actaeon (; grc, Ἀκταίων ''Aktaion''), in Greek mythology, son of the priestly herdsman Aristaeus and Autonoe in Boeotia, was a famous Theban hero. Like Achilles in a later generation, he was trained by the centaur Chiron.
He fell to ...
''; after
Giacomo Bassano
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; for the
Crozat Collection
Pierre Crozat (1665–1740) was a French financier, art patron and collector at the center of a broad circle of ''cognoscenti''; he was the brother of Antoine Crozat.
Biography
The brothers Crozat were born in Toulouse, France, the sons of a we ...
.
*''The Virgin enthroned, with SS. Francis, John, and Catharine''; after
Correggio.
*''The Holy Family, with St. Charles Borromeo''; after
Scarsellino
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.
*''The Four Liberal Arts, personified by Children''; four plates; after
C. van Loo.
*''Jupiter and
Antiope''; after the same. 1758.
*''
Herminia armed as Clorinda''; after
J. B. Pierre.
*''The Birth of Venus''; after
F. de Troy.
*''Jupiter and Leda''; after the same.
*''The Triumph of
Galatea
Galatea is an ancient Greek name meaning "she who is milk-white".
Galatea, Galathea or Gallathea may refer to:
In mythology
* Galatea (Greek myth), three different mythological figures
In the arts
* ''Aci, Galatea e Polifemo'', cantata by H ...
''; after
Bouchardon; etched by
Count de Caylus, and finished by Fessard.
*''The Triumph of Bacchus''; after the same; etched by Count de Caylus, and finished by Fessard.
*''The Nativity''; after
Boucher.
*''A Flemish Festival''; after
Rubens
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (; ; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat from the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque traditio ...
. 1762.
*''Psyche abandoned by Cupid''; after
Le Moine.
References
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1714 births
1774 deaths
18th-century engravers
Engravers from Paris
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