Charles Dupuis (engraver)

Charles Dupuis (1685, Paris - 3 March 1742) was a French engraver, who based many of his works on the paintings in the galleries at Versailles and the Palais-Royal.

King Henry IV, after Philippe Vleughels

As early as 1712, he was in London, together with Claude Dubosc, to assist Nicolas Dorigny in his engravings of the tapestry designs known as the "Raphael Cartoons". He was elected a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1730.

His brother, Nicolas-Gabriel Dupuis, was also a well known engraver.

Selected works

Earth and Air, after Louis Boullogne
Saint John in the Desert
The Marriage of the Virgin, after Van Loo

Sources

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bouillet, Marie-Nicolas; Chassang, Alexis, eds. (1878). "^{article name needed}". Dictionnaire Bouillet (in French).

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