François Bonnemer
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François Bonnemer was a French painter and engraver who was born at Falaise in 1637. He worked with
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, the younger Corneille, and the younger Vouet on the ceiling of the gallery of the King's Audience Chamber at the
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, and was commissioned by the king to copy some works of
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in the
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at Rome. He engraved several plates after Le Brun, and was the master of Ménageot. He died in Paris in 1689.


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* 1637 births 1689 deaths People from the Province of Normandy People from Falaise, Calvados Artists from Normandy 17th-century French engravers 17th-century French painters French male painters {{France-painter-17thC-stub