Name Gaspard Duchange | Died 1757, Paris, France | |
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Gaspard Duchange (1662–1757) was a French engraver.
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Life
Duchange was born in Paris in 1662. He was a pupil of Guillaume Vallet and then of Jean Audran. He was received into the Academy in 1707 and died in Paris in 1757.
Style
According to Joseph Strutt in his Biographical Dictionary of Engravers (1786), Duchange's style was similar to that of his teacher, Audran, but in general neater, with the use of etching not so predominant. Strutt did not think that Duchange's drawing was as good as Audran's, but concluded that his prints "though mannered, and often rather laboured, have much to recommend them to the connoisseur, especially such as are pleased with agreeable management of the graver."
List of works
Duchange engraved a considerable number of plates. They include:
Portraits
Subjects after various artists
After Correggio:
After Paolo Veronese:
After Jouvenet:
After Antoine Coypel:
After Noel-Nicolas Coypel:
After Desormeaux:
After Rubens:
These five last plates were engraved for the Luxembourg Gallery.