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[[File:Adam et Eve Philippe d orleans et Madeleine de la Vieuville.jpg|thumb|300px|''[[Adam and Eve]] in Paradise'' by [[Jean-Baptiste Santerre]], engraved by François-Anne David for the [[Menus-Plaisirs du Roi|Cabinet Du Roi]], 1716]]
[[File:Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France and his mistress, Madame de Parabère, as Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden (1717, Jean Baptiste Santerre).jpg|thumb|300px|''[[Adam and Eve]] in Paradise'' by [[Jean-Baptiste Santerre]], engraved by François-Anne David for the [[Menus-Plaisirs du Roi|Cabinet Du Roi]], 1716]]
'''François Anne David''' (1741-1824), was a French [[Line engraving|line-engraver]].
'''François Anne David''' (1741-1824), was a French [[Line engraving|line-engraver]].



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Adam and Eve in Paradise by Jean-Baptiste Santerre, engraved by François-Anne David for the Cabinet Du Roi, 1716

François Anne David (1741-1824), was a French line-engraver.

David was born in Paris in 1741, where he lived and worked all his life. He was a pupil of Le Bas, and engraved several portraits and other subjects in a neat, finished style. He died in Paris in 1824.

Portraits

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

  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainBryan, 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.