Jérôme Vallet
Jérôme Vallet (born January 18, 1667 in Paris , † around 1722) was a French engraver .
Jérôme Vallet was the eldest son of the engraver Guillaume Vallet . On August 26, 1702 he became a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture and carried the title of "draftsman and ordinary engraver of the king" ( French: Dessinateur et graveur ordinaire du Roi ). On September 22, 1705, he married Marie-Geneviève Picard, a daughter of the engraver Pierre Picard, and the couple had several children:
The son Jean-Emmanuel-Jérôme Vallet (* June 21, 1722; † 1762 [?]) Was also a copper engraver and mainly engraved maps.
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, p. 345 ( 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 . (in the article on the father).
Web links
- Information on Jérôme Vallet in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- Archive material relating to Jérôme Vallet in the Archives nationales
Individual evidence
- ↑ Auguste Jal : Dictionnaire critique de biographie et d'histoire errata et supplément pour tous les dictionnaires historiques d'après des documents authentiques inédits . H. Plon, Paris 1867, p. 1221–1222 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Information on Jean-Emmanuel-Jérôme Vallet in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vallet, Jérôme |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French engraver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1667 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1722 |