Edme Bovinet

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Edme Bovinet, a French engraver, who was born at Chaumont in 1767, was a pupil of Jean-Baptiste Patas. His works are after the most eminent Italian, Dutch, and French painters; some are in the Galerie du Musée Napoléon. He died at Creil about 1832.

The best of his engravings are:

• The Campo Vaccino; after Claude Lorraine.
• The Schoolmaster; after Ostade.
• Orpheus and Eurydice; after Poussin.

Portrait of French carpenter and poet Adam Billaut (1602-1662), engraving from 1790.

References

This article incorporates text from the article "BOVINET, Edme" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.