Charles-Nicolas Cochin
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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-Nic
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
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Alexis Simon Belle was a French painter who specialised in portrait painting who is best known for his portraits of the French and Jacobite nobility. As a portrait artist, Belle's style followed that
Charles-Nicolas Cochin
…b. 1689, died after 1745) and Marie-Anne-Hyacinthe Horthemels (1682–1727), worked in the same field. Marie-Nicole was married to the portrait artist Alexis Simon Belle, while Marie-Anne-Hyacinthe was the wife of Nicolas-Henri Tardieu. Tardieu (1674–1749) was another eminent French engraver, a member of the academy…
Self-portrait, 1700–1725
Belle's painting of Jacobite pretender James Francis 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