Élisabeth-Claire Tardieu (1731-1773) was a French engraver.

Life and work

Tardieu was born in

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

in 1731. She worked as an engraver, creating reproduction engravings of Pierre Louis Dumesnil,

François de Troy François de Troy (9 January 1645 – 1 May 1730) was a French painter and engraver who became principal painter to King James II in exile at Saint-Germain-en-Laye and Director of the Académie Royale de peinture et de sculpture. Early life O ...

, Étienne Jeaurat and others. Her husband was

Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu, called "Tardieu fils" or "Tardieu the younger", (2 September 1716 – 9 July 1791) was a French engraver. Biography Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu was born on 2 September 1716 in Paris. He was the son of Marie-Anne Horthemels ...

. She died in Paris in 1773.

Notable collections

*''L' Aimable Accord (Pleasant Harmony)'',

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*''Le déjeuner de l'enfant'', ca. 1748–1760,

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*''Sweet Sleep'', 1760-1770s,

Hermitage Museum The State Hermitage Museum ( rus, Государственный Эрмитаж, r=Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž, p=ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)ɨj ɪrmʲɪˈtaʂ, links=no) is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and holds the large ...

References

1731 births 1773 deaths Artists from Paris 18th-century French engravers French women engravers French women printmakers 18th-century French women artists {{France-artist-stub