Siddhesh Joshi (Editor)

Jacques Philippe Le Bas

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Name
  
Jacques-Philippe Bas

Died
  
1783, Paris, France

Jacques-Philippe Le Bas

Jacques-Philippe Le Bas or Lebas (8 July 1707 - 14 April 1783) was a French engraver.

Contents

Life and work

Lebas was engraver to the Cabinet du roi and successfully produced engravings after several paintings by different artists. His oeuvre amounts to more than 500 works, including many large portraits after Vernet, and several works after van de Velde, Parrocel, Berchem, Ruysdael, Watteau, Oudry and Lancret. He trained the line engraver Francois-Anne David.

Selected works

  • The works of mercy, large intaglio plate after David Teniers;
  • L’Enfant prodigue, pendant to The Works of Pity, after Teniers;
  • A follow-up to Fetes de village, in intaglio;
  • Le Sanglier feroce, large intaglio plate after Philips Wouwerman;
  • La Chasse a l’italienne and le Pot au lait, two large intaglio plates after Wouvermans, as a pendant;
  • Le Depart de la chasse; la Prise du heron, two intaglio plates as a pendant, after Carel Van Falens;
  • Le Rendez-vous de chasse; l’Heureux Chasseur, two plates after the former;
  • L’Alliance de Bacchus et de Venus, medium plate after Noel Nicolas Coypel

    • References

    Jacques-Philippe Le Bas Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA