Guillaume Vallet
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Guillaume Vallet , sometimes also Valet, (* December 6, 1632 in Paris , † July 1, 1704 ibid) was a French engraver .
Life
Vallet was the son of Jean Vallet , a print dealer, and his wife, Marguerite Liercourt . He had been friends with Étienne Picart since his early teens . At first Vallet was tutored by Pierre Daret . He and Étienne Picart then studied in Rome from 1655 to 1662. After returning to Paris in 1664 he became a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture . His recording piece was an engraving after Jean Jouvenet with a portrait of Jules Mazarin . Vallet sometimes cut from his own templates, but also made reproductions, etc. a. after Francesco Albani , Sébastien Bourdon , Annibale and Lodovico Carracci , Guillaume Courtois , Carlo Maratta , Nicolas Poussin , Raffael , Guido Reni and Jacques Stella . Copper engravings by him, based on the models of Antoine Paillet (1626–1701), can be found in a volume by Pierre Corneilles Le Théâtre de P. Corneille… .
Vallet was buried in the cemetery of St. Benoit in the 5th arrondissement in Paris.
Family
In 1664 he married Catherien Bovin , a merchant's daughter. The marriage resulted in numerous children, some of whom died in childhood. His son Jérôme (born January 18, 1667, † around 1720) followed in his footsteps and also became an engraver. Another son was Barthélémy Vallet (born May 11, 1674), who became a sculptor.
literature
- Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon or news of the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, copper engravers, shape cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers, etc. Volume 19. Fleischmann, Munich 1849, pp. 343-345 ( Digitized version ).
- Auguste Jal : Dictionnaire critique de biographie et d'histoire. Henri Plon, Paris 1872, pp. 1221–1223 ( digitized version ).
- Vallet, Guillaume . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 34 : Urliens – Vzal . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1940, p. 81 .
Web links
- Information on Guillaume Vallet in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- Literature by and about Guillaume Vallet in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Archives on Guillaume Vallet
Individual evidence
- ↑ Laura Bartoni: Vallet, Guillaume, incisore francese . In: Le vie degli artisti: residenze e botteghe nella Roma barocca dai registri di Sant 'Andrea delle Fratte (1650–1699) . Edizioni Nuova Cultura, 2012, ISBN 978-88-6134-938-4 , p. 524 (Italian, books.google.de ).
- ↑ Pierre Corneille: Le Théâtre de P. Corneille Reveu et corrige 'par l'autheur . With copper engravings by Guillaume Vallet, after Antoine Paillet. Part 1, 1664 ( books.google.de ).
- ↑ Henri Herluison: Actes d'état-civil d'artistes français, peintres, graveurs, architectes, etc. Extraits of registres de l'Hôtel-de-ville de Paris, détruits dans l'incendie du 24 May 1871 . Paris / Orleans 1873, p. 437-438 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
- ^ Archives of Barthélemy Vallet .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vallet, Guillaume |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French engraver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1632 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1, 1704 |
| Place of death | Paris |