Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella, called C. Stella, was the niece of Jacques Stella, and was born at Lyons in 1636. She learned the principles of design from her uncle, but applied herself to engraving, in which she greatly distinguished herself. Her plates are cliiefly after the pictures of Jacques Stella and Nicolas Poussin; and perhaps no artist has been so successful in engravings after the latter painter, she having greatly surpassed Jean Pesne. Her design is correct, and the characters of the heads are admirably expressed. She died in Paris in 1697 The following are her best prints:
This article incorporates text from the article "BOUZONNET, Claudine" 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.