Elisabeth-Claire Tardieu

Reprint of the map of the 1764 solar eclipse, after Joseph Lepaute Dagelet

Élisabeth-Claire Tardieu (* 1731 in Paris ; † May 3, 1773 ibid), née Tournay, was a French engraver .

She was the second wife of Jacques Nicolas Tardieu . Like her husband, she worked as an engraver and drew her sheets with EC Tournay. She was certified as having a great skill as a copper engraver, equal to her husband's.

Her son was the painter Jean-Charles Tardieu .

Works (excerpt)

• le Concert , after Jean François de Troy
• la Vieille Coquette , after Louis Michel Dumesnil
• le Jolie dormeur , after Étienne Jeaurat
• la Marchande de moutarde , after Charles Hutin

literature

• Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon or news from the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers, form cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers, etc. Volume 18, Munich 1847, p. 107 ( digital collections. uni-weimar.de ).
• Ferdinand Höfer : Nouvelle biography générale Volume 44, 1852, p. 874 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Société de l'histoire de l'art français: Archives de l'art français. Recueil de documents inédits relatifs à l'histoire des arts en France Volume 7, 1855, p. 64 f. ( gallica.bnf.fr ).
• Tardieu, Elisabeth-Claire . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 3rd, revised and updated edition up to the latest time. tape 4 : Raab – Vezzo . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1901, p. 380 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

• Information on Elisabeth-Claire Tardieu in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
• Literature by and about Élisabeth-Claire Tardieu in the bibliographic database WorldCat