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EDELINCK, Gérard [1640-1707] after François De TROYE [1645-1730].. Portrait of French Priest and Encyclopedist Louis Moréri [1643-1680].
copper engraving. 324 x 218 mm. (plate). (sheet: 348 x 243 mm.). signed in the plate. A good dark impression on thick laid paper (traces of mounting on verso). Edelinck studied with the engravers Gaspar Huybrechts and Cornelis Galle the Younger in his native Antwerp, and with François de Poilly, Robert Nanteuil, and Philippe de Champaigne in Paris. He became a naturalized French citizen in 1675, was appointed by Louis XIV teacher at the academy established at the Gobelins manufactory for the training of workers in tapestry, won admission to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1677, and became principal draftsman for the King. A superb portrait engraver, Edelinck executed prints of many of the most eminent persons of his time.
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