Nicolas-Henri Tardieu
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Nicolas-Henri Tardieu, called the "Tardieu the elder", was a prominent French engraver, known for his sensitive reproductions of Antoine Watteau's paintings. He was appointed graveur du roi to King Lo
Engraving of Nicolas-Henri Tardieu by his son Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu after a painting by Jean-Baptiste van Loo, 1743.
The painter Charles-Antoine Coypel
Le Couronnement du Roi, after a painting by Pierre Dulin. The engraving was made soon after 25 October 1722 from a tableau in the series Le Sacre de Louis XV.
Watteau et son ami Monsieur de Jullienne, 1731.
Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu
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Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu, called "Tardieu fils" or "Tardieu the younger", was a French engraver.
Nicolas-Henri Tardieu
…January 1749 at his house on the Rue Saint-Jacques in Paris and was buried the next day. He was survived by his brother, Claude Tardieu, and his son, Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu. Tardieu had four sons, each of whom passed on the tradition of engraving or other arts to their descendants. He had taught his son Jacques-Nicolas…
Jean-François Lalouette
Judgment of Paris – Jacques Nicolas Tardieu and Pierre Etienne Moitte after Peter Paul Rubens
La Magdeleine pénitente, gravure de Tardieu d’après Paolo Pagani, v. 1750, Dresde, Galerie des vieux maitres de Dresde.
Glory of Christ