Edme Jeaurat

After working there many years, Jeaurat moved to the Netherlands, where he made his living producing engravings of the great paintings in Amsterdam and The Hague, while studying Dutch painting. Upon his return to Paris, he was reunited with his brother, whom he had not seen in many years. He began engraving Etienne's paintings and became known for his accurate work. Jeaurat was also employed by Pierre Crozat to engrave pictures for his famous collection. In 1722 in Paris, he married Marie-Charlotte Le Clerc, the sister of the artist Le Clerc, and many of his engravings are of the religious pictures painted by his brother-in-law. He had two sons, Nicolas Henri, a painter of still lifes, and Edme-Sébastien, who eventually devoted himself to science and became an astronomer. There is a fine collection of Edme Jeaurat's engravings in the British Museum, and they can also be studied in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. His finest work is said to be "Achilles discovered among the Daughters of Lycomedes" from 1713, and he also made engravings of works by Poussin, Veronese, and Watteau.

Étienne Fessard is recorded as having studied under Edme Jeaurat. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is engraving and book illustration. Work by Edme Jeaurat is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Auckland Art Gallery, Finnish National Gallery, Nationalmuseum and Philadelphia Museum of Art.

His recorded language was French. He married Marie Le Clerc. 2 children are recorded: Nicolas Henri Jeaurat de Bertry and Edme-Sébastien Jeaurat.

Edme Jeaurat is recorded as printmaker, printseller, illustrator, artist and copper engraver.