Étienne Fessard
Illustration — The Holy Family, with St. Charles Borromeo; after Scarsellino, ca. 1750 Étienne Fessard, a French engraver, was born in Paris in 1714.
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Étienne Fessard
![Benedictus (Baruch) Spinoza. Line engraving by E. Fessard, 1744., [1765?], by Étienne Fessard](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0005576/full/1280,/0/default.jpg)
Étienne Fessard · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection · Public Domain Mark
- Born
- 1714. · Paris.
- Died
- 1777. · Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- printmaker, copper engraver, illustrator, etcher, independent publisher, draftsperson and art dealer.
- Movements
- Rococo.
- Teachers
- Edme Jeaurat.
- Languages
- French.
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He was a pupil of Edme Jeaurat, and proved an artist of sufficient merit to be accepted for candidacy (agréé) at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (1753). A protegé of le comte de Caylus, whom he may have assisted in the development of skill in etching, Fessard received the appointment Engraver of the King's Library (graveur de la Bibliothèque du Roi) in 1756, with responsibility for the engravings of the royal collection of paintings and drawings, as a result of Caylus' influence. On his death in 1777, the position was given to his student Augustin de Saint-Aubin.
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Étienne Fessard (1714 – 1777) is described as a copperplate engraver, etcher, draughtsman, art dealer, self-publisher, reproductive printmaker, graphic artist and painter in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Getty Union List of Artist Names. The birth of Étienne Fessard is recorded in 1714, and the death in 1777.
Training under Edme Jeaurat is recorded. Jean-Baptiste Tilliard is recorded as having studied under Étienne Fessard. The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Work by Étienne Fessard is recorded in the collections of Nationalmuseum, Städel Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Finnish National Gallery and Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK).
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Étienne Fessard was born in Paris, France, according to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Étienne Fessard died in Paris, France, according to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Place of activity recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: Paris.
• Illustration — Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre • Hortensia Mancini, Duchess of Mazarin; after Ferdinand. • Marie Madeleine de Lavergne, Countess de La Fayette; after the same. • J. P. de Bougainville, of the French Academy; after C. N. Cochin. • The Marquis de Mirabeau; after Van Loo. • The Duke de Choiseul; after the same.
Subjects after various masters
Subjects after various masters
• Illustration — The Virgin enthroned, with SS. Francis, John, and Catharine; after Correggio, ca. 1750 • Diana and Actaeon; after Giacomo Bassano; for the Crozat Collection. • The Virgin enthroned, with SS. Francis, John, and Catharine; after Correggio. • The Holy Family, with St. Charles Borromeo; after Scarsellino. • The Four Liberal Arts, personified by Children; four plates; after C. van Loo. • Jupiter and Antiope; after the same. 1758. • Herminia armed as Clorinda; after J. B. Pierre. • The Birth of Venus; after F. de Troy. • Jupiter and Leda; after the same. • The Triumph of Galatea; after Bouchardon; etched by Count de Caylus, and finished by Fessard. • The Triumph of Bacchus; after the same; etched by Count de Caylus, and finished by Fessard. • The Nativity; after Boucher. • A Flemish Festival; after Rubens. 1762. • Psyche abandoned by Cupid; after Le Moine.
Louis Jean Le Thieullier. Line engraving by E. Fessard, 1743., 1743, by Étienne Fessard
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1714
Étienne Fessard born at Paris.
1777
Étienne Fessard died at Paris.
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- 1.Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Estampes et des Photographies, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, t. 9 (1962), pp. 22-112 (1260 nos.), in particular, no. 404 (pp. 88-92) and no. 1235 (p. 107).
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