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Étienne Ficquet (13 September 1719 – 11 December 1794) was a French engraver.
Ficquet was born in Paris in 1719, and was instructed by G. F. Schmidt and Le Bas. He acquired great reputation by a set of small portraits which he engraved of distinguished literary characters of France. They are executed with extraordinary neatness and delicacy, and are very correctly drawn. One of his best plates is a portrait of
Étienne Ficquet (13 September 1719 – 11 December 1794) was a French engraver.
Ficquet was born in Paris in 1719, and was instructed by G. F. Schmidt and Le Bas. He acquired great reputation by a set of small portraits which he engraved of distinguished literary characters of France. They are executed with extraordinary neatness and delicacy, and are very correctly drawn. One of his best plates is a portrait of Madame de Maintenon Madame may refer to:
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*Nicolas Mignard (1606–1668), French painter
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, now become very scarce. He engraved also several of the plates for Descamps' ''Vie des Peintres Flamands et Hollandais,'' of which those of Rubens and Van Dyck are very highly finished. He died in Paris in 1794.
Works
*'' Françoise d'Aubigné''; after P. Mignard. *'' J. de La Fontaine''; after Rigaud. *'' J. F. Regnard''; after the same. *''J. J. Rousseau
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* Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour (1593–1666), French Governor of Acadia
* Georges de La Tour (1593–1652), French Baroque painter
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. 1763.
*''F. M. Arouet de Voltaire
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''; after the same. 1762.
*''Pierre Corneille
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''; after Le Brun.
*'' J. de Crébillon''; after Aved.
*''J. B. P. de Molière
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''; after Coypel Coypel is the name of a French family of painters, including:
* Noël Coypel 1628–1707,
* Antoine Coypel, 1661–1722, son of Noël
* Charles-Antoine Coypel
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.
*''René Descartes
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''; after F. Hals.
*'' M. Montaigne''; after Dumonstier. 1772.
*'' De La Mothe Le Vayer''; after Nanteuil
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See also
* Communes of the Deux-Sèvres department
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*'' F. de La Mothe Fénélon''; after Vivien
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See also
* Saint-Vivien (disambiguation)
* Vivienne
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.
*'' J. J . Vadé''; after Richard
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.
*'' P. P. Rubens''; after Van Dyck
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.
*''Anton Van Dyck
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''; after the same.
References
* 1719 births 1794 deaths 18th-century engravers Engravers from Paris Portrait engravers {{France-artist-stub