Benoit Louis Prevost
Benoit Louis Prevost, born around 1735 in Paris and died in 1804 , is a writer French.
Pupil of John Workman , Prevost was skilled craftsman and engraver Bourin and tip Pignet who engraved in a manner far superior to that of his master. He left more than sixty bottles from the drawings of Cochin , pieces which have the merit of having kept his character to perfection as we think we see the same designs. The most famous of his works is certainly the frontispiece of the Encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert representative Reason and Philosophy tearing her veil to the real ray of light, engraved in 1772 after the design of Cochin dating from 1764.
We must also Prevost Allegory in Honor of Louis-Auguste, Dauphin of France, Suite twelve subjects, allegories for editing in-4 of the short chronological history of France's President Henault , the Portrait of Louis XV , the Portrait of Marie-Antoinette , the Portrait of Armand Thomas Hue, Marquis de Miromesnil , two major battles of China, Allegory in honor of Louis-Auguste, Dauphin of France , after all Cochin, and Joseph Ignace Guillotin after Moreau , Voltaire walking in his garden.
Sources
- Etienne Francois Joubert, Manuel lover's prints in Paris, the author, 1821, p. 387
References
- Allgemeines Knstlerlexikon: die bildenden Knstler aller Zeiten und Vlker, Mnchen, KG Saur, 1992-2006
- Michael Bryan, A biographical and critical dictionary of painters and engravers, London, Carpenter and Son, J. Booker, and Whittingham and Arliss, 1816
External Links
- Benoit Louis Prevost in the base joconde
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