Charles-Nicolas Cochin was a French engraver, designer, writer, and art critic. To distinguish him from his father of the same name, he is variously called Charles-Nicolas Cochin le Jeune, Charles-Nicolas Cochin le fils, or Charles-Nicolas Cochin II.
Charles-Nicolas Cochin
Abbey of Port-Royal-des-Champs, engraved by Cochin's mother Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels.
Le statuaire et la statue de Jupiter, sketch by Cochin for an illustration in Jean de la Fontaine's Fables choisies
Detail of the frontispiece of the Encyclopédie, drawn by Cochin and engraved by Benoît-Louis Prévost.
Alexis Simon Belle was a French portrait painter, known for his portraits of the French and Jacobite nobility.
As a portrait artist, Belle's style followed that of his master François de Troy, Hyacinthe Rigaud, and Nicolas de Largillière. He was the master of the painter Jacques-André-Joseph-Camelot Aved (1702–1766).
Alexis Simon Belle, self portrait
Belle's painting of Jacobite pretender James Edward Stuart in armor
Mariana Victoria of Spain, fiancée of Louis XV, later Queen of Portugal
Portrait by Alexis Simon Belle of Charles-François-Marie de Custine, Chevalier de Wiltz