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| NAME = David, François-Anne |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION = [Line engraving|Line-engraver]] |
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| DATE OF BIRTH = 1741 |
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| PLACE OF BIRTH = Paris, France |
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François Anne David, a French line-engraver, was born in Paris in 1741, and died in the same city in 1824. He was a pupil of Le Bas, and engraved several portraits and other subjects in a neat, finished style; among them are the following:
Portraits
- Louis Stanislas Xavier, Monsieur, afterwards Louis XVIII; after Drouais.
- Louis XVIII; full-length, in his robes; after himself.
- Denis Diderot; after L. M. van Loo.
- César Gabriel de Choiseul, Duc de Praslin; after Roslin.
- Catharine II, Empress of Russia; after Mlle. Durameau.
- Gaspard Netscher, painter, his Wife and Son; after Netscher.
- Charles I of England with his Family; after Van Dyck.
Subjects after various masters
- Adam and Eve in Paradise; after Santerre.
- Christ crowned with thorns; after Titian.
- St. Cecilia; after Raphael.
- The Dutch Sportsman; after G. Metsu.
- The Green-Market at Amsterdam; after the same.
- The Quack Doctor; after Karel Du Jardin.
- The Bull; after Paul Potter.
- Two Views of the Gulf of Venice; after Joseph Vernet.
- Two Views near Dunkirk; after the same.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "DAVID, François Anne". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.[[Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, volume 1|]]