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Jean DaulléFrench, 1703 - 1763

Born Abbeville, 18 May 1703; Died Paris, 23 April 1763.

French printmaker and print publisher. He was a pupil of Robert Hecquet and came to specialize in engraved portraits. In 1735 he met the portrait painter Hyacinthe Rigaud and quickly became his favourite engraver, producing his best work after Rigaud’s portraits. His Comtesse de Caylus and Hyacinthe Rigaud were so admired that he was approved (agréé) and admitted (reçu) by the Académie Royale on the same day, 2 June 1742. He was appointed Graveur du Roi in 1743 and c. 1757 became a member of the academy of Augsburg. From 1753 he engraved many paintings for the Galerie de Dresde, including Quos Ego and the Artist’s Children after Rubens. Between 1748 and 1755 he gradually gave up portraits, to devote himself to mythological and genre scenes, mainly after François Boucher but also after Joseph Vernet, David Teniers the younger, Adam Frans van der Meulen and Jean-François de Troy. Around 1754 he became a publisher and made fewer prints; from 1758 he entrusted some of his work to his pupils. In 1769 his widow published a collection of 84 of his prints. Daullé produced almost 200 engravings; his work, especially in the portraits, was meticulous. Although the quality was sometimes uneven, his best work places him among the finest of the reproductive engravers of the first half of the 18th century.

Véronique Meyer. "Daullé, Jean." In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online, http://www.oxfordartonline.com.proxy.lib.fsu.edu/subscriber/article/grove/art/T021501 (accessed March 8, 2012).

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