Engravings

Poussin’s works have been widely engraved since the 17th century.

Below are his main engravers, in France and Italy:

Gérard Audran (1640-1703)

Trained to the drawing by his father, a professor of engraving at the Academy of Lyon and also trained by Charles Le Brun. After a trip to Rome to complete his education, he was appointed in Paris official engraver of Louis XIV, and advisor to the Royal Academy of Painting.

He engraved several paintings of Poussin, notably Spring, from the Four Seasons series.

Jean Baron from Toulouse (1631-1660)

This engraver, also known as The Toulousian, was born in 1631.

He worked in Rome, after the works of Nicolas Poussin and various other masters (including François Nicolas Bar), where he died aged 28.

Etienne Baudet (1638-1711)

Drawer and engraver, trained in the studio of Sébastien Bourdon, active in Rome between 1665 and 1673. He was appointed engraver to the king Louis XIV in 1693.

According Bénézit his landscape engravings from the works of Poussin – notably the Landscape with Diogenes – are among his greatest achievements.

Jean Desaulx (active btw 1786 et 1834)

Gold medal at the Salon of 1819, he made several landscapes, like Hagar in the Desert from the painting of Pier Francesco Mola, and the Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice from Poussin’s masterpiece.

Michel Natalis (1610-1668)

Engraver from Liege, in Rome between 1633 and 1639, he staid several times in Paris where he worked in 1661 on Poussin’s paintings, like the first version of the Ecstasy of St Paul. Louis XIV appointed him first engraver in 1668, but he died the same year before going to Paris.

Jean Pesne (1623-1700)

French engraver and painter, he worked on several paintings of Poussin, like the Assumption of the Virgin or the Self-portrait kept today in Berlin.