Jean Daullé

Hyacinthe Rigaud painting his wife, after an autoportrait by Rigaud, 1742

Jean Daullé (1703-1763) was a French engraver.

Biography

Jean Daullé was born at Abbeville in 1703. He received his first lessons in engraving from Dom Robart, a monk of the priory of St. Peter at Abbeville, and afterwards went to Paris, where his fellow-citizen, Robert Hecquet, taught him what little he himself knew. His merit did not remain long unnoticed, and he was received into the Academy in 1742.^[1] He was a friend of the portrait artist Donat Nonnotte, and engraved several of his pictures.^[2] He died in Paris in 1763. After his death some of his engravings were published by his widow as his 'OEuvre.'^[1]

Work

He engraved several portraits and plates of historical and other subjects, which are chiefly executed with the graver in a clear and firm style, which entitles him to rank with the ablest artists of his time. He marked his works J. D. The following are his principal plates:^[1]

Portraits

Claude Charles de Rouvroy de Saint-Simon, French bishop, after Hyacinthe Rigaud

• Catherine, Countess of Feuquières, daughter of Pierre Mignard; after Mignard.
• Hyacinthe Rigaud, painter; after Rigaud; engraved for his reception at the Academy in 1742.
• Marguerite de Valois, Countess of Caylus; after the same.
• Charles Edward Stuart, son of the Pretender.
• Clementina, Princess of Poland, his consort; after David.
• Madame Favart, in the part of 'Bastienne;' after Carle van Loo.
• Claude Deshayes Gendron, oculist; after Rigaud.
• Jean Baptiste Rousseau; after Aved.
• Jean Mariette, engraver; after Pesne.

Subjects after various masters

The Persian, after Rembrandt

• The Magdalen; after Correggio; for the Dresden Gallery.
• Diogenes with his Lantern; after Spagnoletto; for the same.
• Quos Ego; after Rubens.
• The Two Sons of Rubens; after the same; for the Dresden Gallery.
• Neptune appeasing the Tempest; after the same.
• Charity with Three Children; after Albani.
• The Triumph of Venus; after Boucher.
• Les Amusemens de la Campagne; after Boucher.
• Latona; after J. Jouvenet.
• Four Marine subjects; after Joseph Vernet.
• The Bath of Venus; after Raoux.
• Two subjects; after G. Metsu.
• Jupiter and Calisto; after N. Poussin.
• St. Margaret; after Correggio.
• Child playing with Cupid; after Van Dyck.

A detailed account of this artist's works is contained in Delignière's 'Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé de Jean Daullé d' Abbeville,' 1872, 8vo.^[3]

References

Citations

1. Bryan 1878.
2. Sordet 2001, p. 327.
3. Catalogue raisonné on archive.org

Sources

• Bryan, Michael; Stanley, George (1878). A biographical and critical dictionary of painters and engravers: with a list of ciphers, monograms, and marks. G. Bell. Retrieved 2012-11-21.
• Sordet, Yann (2001). L ́amour des livres au siècle des Lumières: Pierre Adamoli et ses collections. Librairie Droz. p. 327. ISBN 978-2-900791-45-5. Retrieved 2012-11-21.

This article incorporates text from the article "DAULLé, Jean" 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.