Pierre Audouin

Henri-François Riesener by Pierre Audouin, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1800

Pierre Audouin (1768-1822) was a French engraver, and pupil of Beauvarlet.

Audouin was born in Paris, where he lived and worked his whole life. He engraved for the ' Musée Français,' published by Laurent, which included several of works of the Italian and Dutch masters. The following are some of his works:

• 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.

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