Pierre Audouin

Pierre Audouin, an eminent French engraver, and pupil of Beauvarlet, was born in Paris in 1768, and died there in 1822. He engraved for the ' Musée Français,' published by Laurent, several of the finest works of the Italian and Dutch masters. The following are fine specimens of his talent:

• Jupiter and Antiope; after Correggio.
• La belle Jardiniere; after Raphael.
• The two portraits called Raphael and his Fencingmaster; ascribed to Raphael.
• The Entombment of Christ; after Caravaggio.
• Charity; after Andrea del Sarto.
• Melpomene, Erato, and Polyhymnia; after Le Sueur.
• Two subjects, after Terborch; one after Mieris; and one after Netscher.
• Marie Therese Charlotte, Duchess of Angouleme; after Dermont.
• Madame Le Brun; after herself.
• Louis XVIII in his coronation robes; after Le Gros.

References

This article incorporates text from the article "AUDOUIN, Pierre" 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.