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Étienne Ficquet (13 September 1719 – 11 December 1794) was a French engraver.
Ficquet was born in Paris in 1719, and was instructed by G. F. Schmidt and Le Bas. He acquired great reputation by a set of small portraits which he engraved of distinguished literary characters of France. They are executed with extraordinary neatness and delicacy, and are very correctly drawn. One of his best plates is a portrait of
Étienne Ficquet (13 September 1719 – 11 December 1794) was a French engraver.
Ficquet was born in Paris in 1719, and was instructed by G. F. Schmidt and Le Bas. He acquired great reputation by a set of small portraits which he engraved of distinguished literary characters of France. They are executed with extraordinary neatness and delicacy, and are very correctly drawn. One of his best plates is a portrait of Madame de Maintenon Madame may refer to:
* Madam, civility title or form of address for women, derived from the French
* Madam (prostitution), a term for a woman who is engaged in the business of procuring prostitutes, usually the manager of a brothel
* ''Madame'' ( ...
, after Mignard, now become very scarce. He engraved also several of the plates for Descamps' ''Vie des Peintres Flamands et Hollandais,'' of which those of Rubens and Van Dyck are very highly finished. He died in Paris in 1794.
Works
*''Françoise d'Aubigné
Françoise () is a French feminine given name (equivalent to the English Frances or Italian Francesca) and may refer to:
* Anne Françoise Elizabeth Lange (1772–1816), French actress
* Claudine Françoise Mignot (1624–1711), French adventure ...
''; after P. Mignard.
*'' J. de La Fontaine''; after Rigaud.
*'' J. F. Regnard''; after the same.
*'' J. J. Rousseau''; after De La Tour La Tour (as distinct from Latour) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour (1593–1666), French Governor of Acadia
* Georges de La Tour (1593–1652), French Baroque painter
* Frances de la To ...
. 1763.
*''F. M. Arouet de Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet (; 21 November 169430 May 1778), known by his ''Pen name, nom de plume'' Voltaire (, ; ), was a French Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment writer, philosopher (''philosophe''), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit ...
''; after the same. 1762.
*''Pierre Corneille
Pierre Corneille (; ; 6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great 17th-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine.
As a young man, he earned the valuable patronage ...
''; after Le Brun.
*'' J. de Crébillon''; after Aved.
*''J. B. P. de Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (; 15 January 1622 (baptised) Р17 February 1673), known by his stage name Moli̬re (, ; ), was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world liter ...
''; after Coypel.
*''René Descartes
René Descartes ( , ; ; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and Modern science, science. Mathematics was paramou ...
''; after F. Hals.
*'' M. Montaigne''; after Dumonstier. 1772.
*'' De La Mothe Le Vayer''; after Nanteuil
Nanteuil () is a commune of the Deux-Sèvres department in western France.
See also
* Communes of the Deux-Sèvres department
The following is a list of the 252 communes of the Deux-Sèvres department of France.
The communes cooperate in ...
.
*'' F. de La Mothe Fénélon''; after Vivien.
*'' J. J . Vadé''; after Richard
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'st ...
.
*'' P. P. Rubens''; after Van Dyck
Sir Anthony van Dyck (; ; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherlands and Italy.
The seventh child of Frans van Dyck, a wealt ...
.
*''Anton Van Dyck
Sir Anthony van Dyck (; ; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherlands and Italy.
The seventh child of Frans van Dyck, a wealth ...
''; after the same.
References
* 1719 births 1794 deaths 18th-century French engravers Engravers from Paris Portrait engravers {{France-artist-stub