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Charles-François-Adrien Macret (2 May 1751, Abbeville - 24 December 1783, Paris) was a French designer and engraver. His works were signed, variously, as ''Macret'', ''Carolus Macret'', ''C. Macret'' and ''C.F. Macret''.
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His youngest brother, , also became an engraver. His father died in 1772, when he fell into a soapmaking vat and was fatally scalded. He began his artistic education at the age of thirteen, when he was apprenticed to a metal engraver named Joseph Selik, originally from Hanover, who specialized in
Charles-François-Adrien Macret (2 May 1751, Abbeville - 24 December 1783, Paris) was a French designer and engraver. His works were signed, variously, as ''Macret'', ''Carolus Macret'', ''C. Macret'' and ''C.F. Macret''.
Biography
He was the second of seven children born to Jean-Baptiste Macret, a soapmaker, and his wife, Marie-Charlotte. His older sister, Marie-Anne-Françoise-Charlotte, married the painter, Pierre-Adrien Choquet (1743-1813). Henri Macqueron, ''Les Macret, graveurs abbevillois, catalogue raisonné de leur œuvre publié d'après les notes d'Émile Delignières, mises en ordre et complétées'', Imprimerie A. Lafosse, 191(Online)
His youngest brother, , also became an engraver. His father died in 1772, when he fell into a soapmaking vat and was fatally scalded. He began his artistic education at the age of thirteen, when he was apprenticed to a metal engraver named Joseph Selik, originally from Hanover, who specialized in
heraldry
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. It was from this first artisanal experience that he made contact with the Parisian engravers, Nicolas-Gabriel Dupuis
Nicolas-Gabriel Dupuis (1698 – 26 March 1771) was a French engraver. He sometimes signed his name as "Dupuis le Jeune" or "Dupuis Junior", to distinguish himself from his older brother, Charles Dupuis, who was also an engraver.''Nicolas-Gabr ...
and Claude-Antoine Littrey de Montigny (c.1735-1775). After their deaths, he continued his studies with Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, Jacques Aliamet and 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 ...
. He appears to have had a special relationship with Saint-Aubin, who allowed him to take joint credit on several works.
In 1777, he married Marie-Julie Petit and they had three children.
According to his brother-in-law, Choquet, he was always thin, delicate and sickly. He died of a persistent fever, perhaps aggravated by overwork, aged only thirty-two. What he intended to be his masterwork, a depiction of the Siege of Beauvais
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(1472), was left unfinished, along with several smaller works. Charles François Louandre, ''Biographie d'Abbeville et de ses environs'', Imprimerie de Devérité, Abbeville, 1829.
References
Further reading
* Roger Portalis andHenri Béraldi
Henri Béraldi (6 February 1849, Paris – 31 March 1931, Paris) was a French people, French bibliophile, publisher and author of books on the Pyrenees and on French printmakers of the 19th century.
Henri Béraldi was the son of Pierre Louis Bér ...
, ''Les graveurs du XVIIIe siècle'', Vol.2, Damascène Morgand et Charles Fatout, 1881.
* Émile Delignières, ''Les graveurs abbevillois'', Douillet, Amiens, 1888.
* Émile Delignières, ''Conférence sur les graveurs abbevillois au musée d'Abbeville et du Ponthieu, le 30 juin 1893'', H. Delesques, Caen, 1896.
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