Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella

Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella was a French engraver.

Life

She was born at Lyons in about 1641,[1] the daughter of Étienne Bouzonnet, a goldsmith, and his wife, Madeleine Stella (sister of the artist Jacques Stella).[2] Her siblings included Antoine and Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella.[1]

According to Joseph Strutt:

She made more use of the point than her sister [i.e. Claudine], and etched in a very powerful style. She harmonized the roughness, left by the aqua-fortis, with the graver, in such a manner as to produce a pleasing effect. She drew correctly, especially the extremities of the human figure, whuch she expressed with great taste.[3]

She died in Paris at the age of 35 in 1676, having suffered a fall.[1] A third sister, Françoise, was also an engraver.[4]

Works

Her works include:[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Antoinette Bouzonnet Stella". Washington, D.C.: National Museum of Women in the Arts. Retrieved 2013-01-29.
  2. ↑ Jeffares, Neil. "STELLA, Claudine Bouzonnet-" (PDF). Dictionary of pastellists before 1800 (online edition).
  3. ↑ Strutt, Joseph (1786). A Biographical Dictionary Containing All the Engravers, From the Earliest Period of the Art of Engraving to the Present Day 2. London: Robert Faulder. p. 339.
  4. 1 2 Bryan,1886-9

Sources

This article incorporates text from the article "BOUZONNET, Antoinette" 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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