Étienne Fessard

The Holy Family, with St. Charles Borromeo; after Scarsellino, ca. 1750

Étienne Fessard, a French engraver, was born in Paris in 1714. He was a pupil of Edme Jeaurat, and proved an artist of sufficient merit to be appointed one of the engravers to the king. He died in Paris in 1774. He executed a considerable number of plates, among which are the following:

Portraits

Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre

Subjects after various masters

The Virgin enthroned, with SS. Francis, John, and Catharine; after Correggio, ca. 1750

References

This article incorporates text from the article "FESSARD, Etienne" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.

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