Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels
Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels, or Louise-Madeleine Hortemels, also called Magdeleine Horthemels, was a French engraver, the mother of Charles-Nicolas Cochin. She is also sometimes credited under her married name of Louise Madeleine Cochin or Madeleine Cochin.
Woman Having Her Hair Styled by Nicolas Lancret, engraved by Horthemels
Plan of the Abbey of Port-Royal-des-Champs, engraving by Horthemels, c. 1710
Caring for the Sick
Distributing Alms to the Poor
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.