Edme Bovinet, a French engraver, who was born at Chaumont in 1767, was a pupil of Jean-Baptiste Patas. His works are after the most eminent Italian, Dutch, and French painters; some are in the Galerie du Musée Napoléon. He died at Creil about 1832.
The best of his engravings are:
- The Campo Vaccino; after Claude Lorraine.
- The Schoolmaster; after Ostade.
- Orpheus and Eurydice; after Poussin.
Portrait of French carpenter and poet Adam Billaut (1602-1662), engraving from 1790.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Bovinet, Edme". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
Entrèe des Français à Berlin 1806 by Jacques François Joseph Swebach-Desfontaines
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