Louis de Chastillon
Illustration — View of the Apollo Basin in the Gardens of Versailles, 1683. Louis de Chastillon (c.1639–1734) was a French painter in enamel and miniature, and an engraver. Chastillon was born in Ste.
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Louis de Chastillon
Louis de Chastillon / After Nicolas Robert · RMN · Public domain
- Born
- 1639 · Sainte-Menehould.
- Died
- 1734 · Paris.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- painter · copper engraver · artist
- Fields
- portrait
- Languages
- French
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Born at Sainte-Menehould in 1639, died in Paris in 1734.
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Louis de Chastillon (1639 – 1734) was a copperplate engraver, miniature painter, enameler, draughtsman and printmaker. Louis de Chastillon died in Paris, France, according to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, the Getty Union List of Artist Names and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Work by Louis de Chastillon is recorded in the collections of Nationalmuseum, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes and Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp.
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Louis de Chastillon was born in Sainte-Menehould, France, according to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, the Getty Union List of Artist Names and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The Bibliothèque nationale de France records the fuller form Sainte-Menehould (Marne, France).
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Louis de Chastillon · RMN
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Louis de Chastillon / After Nicolas Robert · RMN
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- 14.Dinant
- 15.Gallica
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Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Johann David Passavant, Le Peintre-graveur, [S.l.n.n.], .
- Les Plantes du Roi. Note sur un grand ouvrage de botanique préparé au XVIIe siècle par l'Académie royale des Sciences. Revue d'histoire des sciences et de leurs applications. 22. 1969.
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