Nicolas Delaunay, ou de Launay (1646-1727) figure avec Claude Ballin l'aîné (1615-1678) et Claude Ballin le Jeune (1660-1754), parmi les plus fameux orfèvres du règne de Louis XIV. À la suite de la fonte de l’orfèvrerie royale, son œuvre n’est plus qu’un brillant souvenir, mais les récentes recherches d’archive nous la rendent de plus en plus présente. Reçu maître orfèvre en 1672, Nicolas Delaunay fut l’un des principaux fournisseurs de la couronne. Il participa notamment à la fabrication de la… Read more...

Author:

after Jean Michel Moreau

Also known as:

the Younger

Born:

26th Mar, 1741

Dead:

30th Nov, 1814

Country:

France

See more about this author on Wikipedia:

Jean-Michel Moreau (26 March 1741 – 30 November 1814), also called Moreau le Jeune ("the younger"), was a French draughtsman, illustrator and engraver. Moreau le Jeune, as he is usually called, was born in Paris. He was the pupil of the painter Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain who accompanied his master to St Petersburg in 1758 when Le Lorrain went to be the first director of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts established the previous year, where Moreau briefly taught drawing before returning to… Read more...