Pierre-Philippe Choffard
Illustration — Pygmalion, book vignette from 1770 Pierre-Philippe Choffard (19 March 1731 – 7 March 1809) was a French draughtsman and engraver. Choffard was born in Paris in 1731. While still very young he showed great aptitude for drawing flowers and ornaments, and was placed with an engraver of maps named Dheulland, but he afterwards received lessons from Babel, an engraver of ornaments, and is said to have had also the benefit of the advice of Nicolas Edelinck, Balechou, and Cochin.
Also recorded as Pierre Philippe Choffard · P.P. Choffard · M. Choffard · Choffard
Pierre-Philippe Choffard
Pierre-Philippe Choffard · This file comes from Gallica Digital Library and is available under the digital ID btv1b2200090r/f87 · Public domain
- Born
- sources differ (1730 and 1731). · Paris.
- Died
- 1809. · Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- printmaker, artist, copper engraver, cartographer and illustrator.
- Languages
- French.
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Illustration — Pygmalion, book vignette from 1770 Pierre-Philippe Choffard (19 March 1731 – 7 March 1809) was a French draughtsman and engraver. Choffard was born in Paris in 1731. While still very young he showed great aptitude for drawing flowers and ornaments, and was placed with an engraver of maps named Dheulland, but he afterwards received lessons from Babel, an engraver of ornaments, and is said to have had also the benefit of the advice of Nicolas Edelinck, Balechou, and Cochin.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Pierre-Philippe Choffard. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q7192019 · wikipedia · Pierre-Philippe Choffard
In this article
Biography
Born at Paris in 1730, died in Paris in 1809.
Elisabeth Brinclaire is recorded as having studied under Pierre-Philippe Choffard. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is visual arts, copper engraving technique and book illustration. Places of work recorded in the authority are France and Paris. Work by Pierre-Philippe Choffard is recorded in the collections of Nationalmuseum, Print Collection and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
Primary material
Documents and archives
reference work
- “Pierre-Philippe Choffard”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
authority record
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q7192019: Pierre-Philippe Choffard
General reference · Wikidata
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Les gravures françaises du : ou, Catalogue raisonné des estampes, vignettes, eaux-fortes, pièces en couleur au bistre et au lavis, de 1700 à 1800 - Deuxième fascicule — « Pierre-Antoine Baudouin » - page 4. Paris, Jouaust-La Librairie des bibliophiles. 1875 [réédition].
- 2.Les autres graveurs sont Nicolas de Launay (1739-1792), Louis-Joseph Masquelier (1741-1811) et François Denis Née.
- 3.Torres (2009), op. cit., cf. l'ensemble de ces gravures sur le site dédié Battle of Qurman.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Inventaire du Fonds Français. Bibliothèque Nationale. 1940.
- Vera Salomons, Choffard, avec 29 photogravures, Londres, J. & E. Bumpus ltd., 1912.
- 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 .
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessauthority record
General reference
People, houses and institutions
Knowledge graph
People, houses and institutions
Teachers, collaborators, publishers and institutions recorded against this person, each on a stated basis.
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Maps and atlases
1,180 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Pierre PetitAuthor
- Pierre PeytierAuthor
- Pierre RaffeixAuthor
- Pierre-Henry Gauttier du ParcAuthor
- Pieter BergmanAuthor
- Pieter Dirkszoon KeyserAuthor
- Pieter GoosAuthor
- Pieter Mortier IAuthor
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Pierre-Philippe Choffard?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.