Benoît Audran the Younger

Portrait of Benoît Audran the Younger from Georges Duplessis, Les Artistes célèbres, vol. 1, Les Audran, Paris, Librairie de l'Art, 1892

Benoït Audran, called the Younger, to distinguish him from his uncle, was born in Paris in 1698, and died there in 1772. He was the son and pupil of Jean Audran, and engraved in the same manner as his father. He engraved prints after Paolo Veronese, Poussin, Natoire, Lancret, Watteau, and other French artists.

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This article incorporates text from the article "AUDRAN, Benoit, called 'the younger,'" 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.