François Denis Née
François Denis Née (1732 – 19 August 1817) was a French engraver. He was born and died in Paris. He trained under Jacques-Philippe Le Bas and opened a shop with Louis-Joseph Masquelier the Elder in the 1770s on rue des Francs-Bourgeois, moving to rue de Fleurus after the French Revolution, where they produced lithographs.
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François Denis Née
François Denis Née · Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne, VIATICALPES, cote: 3C 354/1-4, Tableaux topographiques, pittoresques, physiques, historiques, moraux, politiques, littéraires, de la Suisse, 350 i · Public domain
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- François Denis Née was born in 1732. · Paris.
- Died
- François Denis Née died on 19 August 1817. · Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- François Denis Née is recorded with the occupation printmaker.
- Languages
- French.
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François Denis Née (1732 – 19 August 1817) was a French engraver. He was born and died in Paris. He trained under Jacques-Philippe Le Bas and opened a shop with Louis-Joseph Masquelier the Elder in the 1770s on rue des Francs-Bourgeois, moving to rue de Fleurus after the French Revolution, where they produced lithographs.
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He is most notable for his engravings of the works of Jean-Baptiste Lallemand as well as his participation in Les Conquêtes de l'Empereur de Chine, a major work commissioned by the Jesuits Jean-Denis Attiret, Giuseppe Castiglione, Ignaz Sichelbart and Jean Damascene. This was a series of 12 complementary engravings coordinated by Charles-Nicolas Cochin, with copperplates engraved in Paris between 1772 and 1774 at the expense of the Qianlong sovereign. He also worked for the views of the Temple of Diana in Nismes, under the French engraver Claude-René-Gabriel Poulleau. Together with other artists they marked the fame of Charles-Louis Clérisseau and his Antiquités de la France. His pupils included Joseph C. Maillet (1751–1811), a publisher and printseller.
Maillet and Antoine Michel Filhol are recorded as having studied under François Denis Née. the recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is engraving, drawing and book illustration. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Work by François Denis Née is recorded in the collections of Finnish National Gallery, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Smithsonian American Art Museum and Musea Brugge.
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François Denis Née was born at Paris.
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François Denis Née died at Paris.
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- 1.Les autres graveurs sont Pierre-Philippe Choffard, Nicolas de Launay (1739-1792) et Louis-Joseph Masquelier (1741-1811)
- 2.Pascal Torres, Les Batailles de l’Empereur de Chine. La gloire de Qianlong célébrée par Louis XV, une commande royale d’estampes, Éditions Le Passage, 2009 — cf. l'ensemble de ces gravures sur le site dédié Battle of Qurman.
- 3.Vue générale de la ville de Noyon, exposée au musée départemental de l'Oise.
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