Benoît Farjat

Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, 1699

Benoît Farjat, a French engraver, was born at Lyons in 1646. He was taught the elements of the art by Guillaume Chasteau, whose manner he at first adopted; but he afterwards went to Rome, and acquired a greater command of the graver, and a better style of design, though he is not always correct. He died in Rome in 1724. There are by him some portraits, and various subjects from the Italian masters; the following are the most esteemed:

Portraits

• Cardinal Federigo Coccia; after L. David.
• Cardinal Cornaro; after the same. 1697.
• Cardinal Tommaso Ferrari; after the same. 1695.

Subjects after various masters

• The Holy Family, with St. John; after Albani.
• The Holy Family, with St. John presenting a Cross; after Pietro da Cortona.
• The Marriage, or, according to others, the Coronation, of St. Catharine; after Agostino Carracci.
• The Virgin and Infant Jesns, with St. John presenting some fruit; after Annibale Carracci.
• The Temptation of St. Anthony; after the same.
• The Communion of St. Jerome; after Domenichino.
• The Death of St. Francis Xavier; after G. B. Gaulli.
• The Marriage of the Virgin; after C. Maratti.
• The Nativity of Christ; after the same.
• The Race of Atalanta; after P. Locatelli.

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  Alexander Jagiellon, published in 1763

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  Bolesław III Wrymouth, published in 1763

References

This article incorporates text from the article "FARJAT, Benoît" 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.