See also:ROBERT See also:NANTEUIL (1623-1678)
, See also:French See also:line-engraver, was See also:born about 1623, or, as other authorities See also:state, in 1630, the son of a See also:merchant of See also:Reims
.
Having received an excellent classical See also:education, he studied See also:engraving under his See also:brother-in-See also:law, See also:Nicholas Regnesson; and, his See also:crayon portraits having attracted See also:attention, he was pensioned by See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIV. and appointed designer and engraver of the See also:cabinet to that monarch
.
It was mainly due to his See also:influence that the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king granted the See also:edict of 1660, dated from St See also:Jean de Luz, by which engraving was pronounced See also:free and distinct from the See also:mechanical arts, and its practitioners were declared entitled to the privileges of other artists
.
He died at See also:Paris in 1678
.
The plates of See also:Nanteuil, several of them approaching the See also:scale of See also:life, number about three See also:hundred
.
In his See also:early practice he imitated the technique of his predecessors, working with straight lines, strengthened, but not crossed, in the shadows, in the See also:style of See also:Claude Mellan, and in other prints See also:cross-hatching like Regnesson, or stippling in the manner of Jean See also:Boulanger; but he gradually asserted his full individuality, modelling the faces of his portraits with the utmost precision and completeness, and employing various methods of See also:touch for the draperies and other parts of his plates
.
Among the finest See also:works of his fully See also:developed See also:period may be named the portraits of Pomponne de Bellievre, Gilles See also:Menage, Jean Loret, the duc de la Meilleraye and the duchess de See also:Nemours
.
A See also:list of his works will be found in Dumesnil's Le Peintre-graveur See also:francais, vol. iv
.
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