Augustin François Lemaître
Augustin François Lemaître (* 1797 ; † 1870 ) was a French reproduction engraver ( copper and steel engraver ), illustrator and lithographer .
Lemaitre worked as a reproduction engraver in Paris . Years before the breakthrough of steel engraving and then photography , two of his portrait engravings served the inventor of photography, Joseph Nicéphore Nièpce , in 1826 as objects in the development of a new type of reproduction process, heliography .
Works (incomplete)
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The Polish-Lithuanian general Jan Karol Chodkiewicz ; Engraving by Lemaître
- with Philippe Le Bas : France: Dictionnaire encyclopédique (3 editions in 1840 in French), Firmin Didot frères, 1841; on-line:
Web links
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literature
- Lemaitre, Augustin François . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 18-19 .
- Ingeborg Schnack : Contributions to the history of the scholar's portrait (therein: The emergence of the portrait collection of Marburg and Giessen university teachers 1629-49; The Marburg university painter Johann Peter Engelhard 1659-89; complete list of portraits; list of artists ), catalog, in: Historische Bildkunde , vol. 3 , from Diepenbroick-Grüter, Hamburg 1935, OCLC 249684227 .
Individual evidence
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| SURNAME | Lemaître, Augustin François |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lemaître, Augustin François; Lemaître, Augustin-François; Lemaitre, Augustin-François; Lemaitre, Augustin François |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French reproduction engraver, copper and steel engraver, illustrator and lithographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1797 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1870 |