François-Anne David

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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

• 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.

Further reading

• Bénézit, Emmanuel (2006) [first published in French in 1911–1923]. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Vol. 4. Paris: Gründ. p. 470. ISBN 2-7000-3074-5 – via the Internet Archive.
• Saunier, Charles (5 March 1904). "François-Anne David". La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité (in French). No. 9. pp. 80–82 – via Gallica.
• Vollmer, Hans (1913). "David, François Anne". In Thieme, Ulrich (ed.). Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler. Vol. 8. Leipzig: E. A. Seemann. p. 452. OCLC 1039527588 – via the Internet Archive.