Jacques Nicolas Tardieu
Jacques Nicolas Tardieu (born September 2, 1716 in Paris ; † July 9, 1791 there ) was a French engraver .
biography
Tardieu was part of a family of engravers, illustrators and cartographers . He received his training from his father Nicolas-Henri Tardieu . In 1749 he was accepted at the Académie de peinture . He was also represented in the Salon de 1750 . Tardieu created a variety of engravings on historical, religious, and profane subjects. Furthermore portraits of well-known personalities. He had great skill in implementing the painted templates with great craftsmanship and delicacy. His best-known students were his nephew Pierre Alexandre Tardieu and Charles-Eugène Duponchel .
His first wife Louise Françoise Tardieu (* 1719), daughter of the medalist Benjamin Duvivier , who died in 1762, helped, as did his second wife Élisabeth-Claire Tardieu (1731–1773), in the workshop and were very successful. He had two sons, Henri and Jean-Charles .
Works (excerpt)
- Bon Boullogne after Gilles Allou
- Portrait by Claude Lorrain after Donat Nonnotte
- L'Apparition de Jésus à la Vierge
- les Misères de la guerre after David Teniers the Younger
- le Dejeuner flamand after David Teniers the Younger
- Portrait of Marie Antoinette after Jean-Marc Nattier
literature
- Ferdinand Höfer : Nouvelle biography générale , 1852, volume 44, p. 450, digitized
- Auguste Jal : Dictionnaire critique de biographie et d'histoire , 1867, p. 1176, digitized
Web links
- Information on Jacques Nicolas Tardieu in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- Literature by and about Jacques Nicolas Tardieu in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Literature by and about Jacques Nicolas Tardieu in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Tardieu, Jacques Nicolas |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French engraver |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 2, 1716 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
DATE OF DEATH | July 9, 1791 |
Place of death | Paris |