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ROBERT NANTEUIL (1623-1678)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 165 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 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 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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