Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont (

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13 June 1797 – 20 January 1892

) was a French engraver. His students included Charles Bellay, Jean-Baptiste Danguin, Adrien Didier, Alphonse and Jules François, Adolphe-Joseph Huot, Achille and Jules Jaquet, Jules Gabriel Levasseur, Aristide Louis, Louis Marckl, Isidore-Joseph Rousseaux, Abel Mignon and Charles Albert Waltner.

Life

Between the ages of 14 and 17, he studied painting in the studio of

Pierre-Narcisse Guérin Pierre-Narcisse, baron Guérin (13 March 1774 – 6 July 1833) was a French painter born in Paris. Background A pupil of Jean-Baptiste Regnault, he carried off one of the three ''grands prix'' offered in 1796, in consequence of the competition ...

at the

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in Paris. He then devoted himself for four years to an apprenticeship in engraving under

Charles Clément Balvay Charles Clément Balvay (23 May 1756, Paris – 23 March 1822, Paris), known as Bervic, was a French engraver mainly working in intaglio and exclusively in burin. Due to an error in transcribing the baptismal register, he is also now known as ...

, nicknamed "the last of the fine burinists", who made him copy the great masters. Between 1816 and 1818, Henriquel lost out on the first prize for engraving twice, which determined him to set up his own studio and follow new styles. Under the influence of English engravers and of Girard Audran, he tended towards "a live, witty and clear line". Henri Beraldi, ''Les Graveurs du XIXe siècle'', vol VIII, 1889, p. 79. In 1831 his engraving after

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's ''Abdication of Gustavus Vasa'' established his reputation and won him the

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. He then worked for six years on his masterwork, an engraving of

Paul Delaroche Hippolyte-Paul Delaroche (17 July 1797 – 4 November 1856) was a French painter who achieved his greater successes painting historical scenes. He became famous in Europe for his melodramatic depictions that often portrayed subjects from English ...

's ''Hemicycle of the fine arts'' - this engraving won an honorary medal at the 1853

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. In 1849 he was elected a member of the

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. He became a professor at the École des beaux-arts in 1863 and founded the Société française de la gravure in 1868. In 1871 he was made president of the Académie des beaux-arts and was still engraving aged 85.

Works

Working not only with the burin but also in the varied fields of

lithography Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German a ...

etching Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. In modern manufacturing, other chemicals may be used on other types ...

and

aquatint Aquatint is an intaglio printmaking technique, a variant of etching that produces areas of tone rather than lines. For this reason it has mostly been used in conjunction with etching, to give both lines and shaded tone. It has also been used h ...

. His other originality is in having engraved many paintings by his contemporaries :

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Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury (8 August 17975 May 1890) was a French painter. Biography Born in Cologne, he was sent by his family to Paris, and after travelling in Italy returned to France and made his first appearance at the Salon in 1824; h ...

Antoine-Jean Gros Antoine-Jean Gros (; 16 March 177125 June 1835) was a French painter of historical subjects. He was given title of Baron Gros in 1824. Gros studied under Jacques-Louis David in Paris and began an independent artistic career during the French R ...

François Gérard François Pascal Simon Gérard (, 4 May 1770 – 11 January 1837), titled as Baron Gérard in 1809, was a prominent French painter. He was born in Rome, where his father occupied a post in the house of the French ambassador, and his mother was It ...

; it was only towards the end of his life that he dealt with the old masters such as

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. As an illustrator, he notably engraved works by Alexandre-Joseph Desenne's and

Achille Devéria Achille Jacques-Jean-Marie Devéria (6 February 180023 December 1857) was a French painter and lithographer known for his portraits of famous writers and artists. His younger brother was the Romantic painter Eugène Devéria, and two of his six ...

's vignettes for the ''Fables'' by

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and for ''La Pucelle d'Orléans'' by

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, though it is his portraits for which he is most noted:

Hemicycle

Image:Paul Delaroche - Hémicycle.jpg, Painting by

(1841–42). Image:Henriquel-Dupont - Hémicycle 2.jpg, Engraving by Henriquel-Dupont (1853).
The central panel of the ''Hemicycle of the Fine Arts'' at the

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in Paris.
''Assis au fond :''

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. ''To the left :'' ancient Greek and medieval art.
''To the right: ancient Roman and Renaissance art.'' ''Centre :''allegory of

Art Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of wha ...

. Two artists,

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and

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, have compared Delaroche's work to that of Henriquel, both preferring the engraver to the painter :

Bertin portrait

Image:Louis-Francois Bertin.jpg, Portrait by

Ingres Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres ( , ; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassicism, Neoclassical Painting, painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic ...

(1832). Image:Henriquel-Dupont - Bertin.jpg, Engraving by Henriquel-Dupont (1844). One of Henriquel-Dupont's most famous portraits is that of the journalist

Louis-François Bertin Louis-François Bertin, also known as Bertin l'Aîné (''Bertin the Elder''; 14 December 176613 September 1841), was a French journalist. He had a younger brother, Louis-François Bertin de Vaux; two sons, Edouard François and Louis-Marie F ...

, engraved in burin after the

portrait A portrait is a portrait painting, painting, portrait photography, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, Personality type ...

. When they were both shown at the 1845

Baudelaire Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist and art critic. His poems exhibit mastery in the handling of rhyme and rhythm, contain an exoticism inherited fro ...

preferred the painting to the engraving :

Portraits

* ''Louis-Philippe'' (after

) * ''Bertin'' (after

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres ( , ; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassicism, Neoclassical Painting, painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic ...

) * ''Ary Scheffer'' (after Léon Benouville)

Other selected works

* ''Burial of Christ'' (after

Hippolyte Delaroche Hippolyte-Paul Delaroche (17 July 1797 – 4 November 1856) was a French painter who achieved his greater successes painting historical scenes. He became famous in Europe for his melodramatic depictions that often portrayed subjects from English ...

) * ''The Abdication of Gustavus Vasa'' (1831, after

) * ''Christus als Tröster'' (after

) * ''The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine'' (1867, after

Correggio Antonio Allegri da Correggio (August 1489 – 5 March 1534), usually known as just Correggio (, also , , ), was the foremost painter of the Parma school of the High Italian Renaissance, who was responsible for some of the most vigorous and sens ...

) * ''Moses'' (after

) * ''The Supper in Emmaus'' (Ätzdruck, after

Paolo Veronese Paolo Caliari (152819 April 1588), known as Paolo Veronese ( , also , ), was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as ''The Wedding at Cana'' (1563) and ''The ...

) * ''General Lariboisière and his son'' (after

Notes, sources and references

Bibliography

Étienne-Jean Delécluze Etienne-Jean Delécluze () (26 February 1781 – 12 July 1863) was a French painter and critic. From 1797 on, he was a pupil of Jacques-Louis David, as he describes in his biography of David. As one of his favorite pupils, he was invited t ...

, ''L'Hémicycle du Palais des Beaux-Arts, peinture murale exécutée par Paul Delaroche. et gravé au burin par M. Henriquel-Dupont. Notice explicative suivie d’un trait figuratif indiquant les noms de tous les personnages, leur naissance, leur mort, etc.'', Paris, Goupil, Paris, 1857.

External links

Gallery of engravings by Louis-Pierre Henriquel-DupontPortrait photo
{{DEFAULTSORT:Henriquel-Dupont 1797 births 1892 deaths 19th-century engravers French engravers Prix de Rome for engraving École des Beaux-Arts alumni Honorary Members of the Royal Academy Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class)