Pierre Audouin

Henri-François Riesener by Pierre Audouin, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1800

Pierre Audouin (1768–1822) was a French engraver, and pupil of Beauvarlet.

Audouin was born in Paris, where he lived and worked his whole life. He engraved for the ' Musée Français,' published by Laurent, which included several of works of the Italian and Dutch masters. The following are some of his works:

• Jupiter and Antiope; after Correggio.
• La belle Jardiniere; after Raphael.
• The two portraits called Raphael and his Fencingmaster; ascribed to Raphael.
• The Entombment of Christ; after Caravaggio.
• Charity; after Andrea del Sarto.
• Melpomene, Erato, and Polyhymnia; after Le Sueur.
• Two subjects, after Terborch; one after Mieris; and one after Netscher.
• Marie Therese Charlotte, Duchess of Angouleme; after Dermont.
• Madame Le Brun; after herself.
• Louis XVIII in his coronation robes; after Le Gros.

References[]

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Audouin, Pierre". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

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