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GERARD, or GIRARD, AUDRAN

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 898 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GERARD, or See also:GIRARD, See also:AUDRAN , the most celebrated See also:French engraver, was the third son of See also:Claude Audran, and was See also:born at See also:Lyons in 164o. He was taught the first principles of See also:design and See also:engraving by his See also:father; and, following the example of his See also:brother, went to See also:Paris to perfect himself in his See also:art. He there, in 1666, engraved for Le Brun " See also:Constantine's See also:Battle with See also:Maxentius," his " See also:Triumph," and the " Stoning of See also:Stephen," which gave See also:great See also:satisfaction to the painter, and placed Attdran in the very first See also:rank of engravers at Paris. Next See also:year he set out for See also:Rome, where he resided three years, and engraved several See also:fine plates. That great See also:patron of the arts, J. B. See also:Colbert, was so struck with the beauty of Audran's See also:works, that he persuaded See also:Louis XIV. to recall him to Paris. On his return he applied himself assiduously to engraving, and was appointed engraver to the See also:king, from whom he received great encouragement. In the year 1681 he was admitted to the See also:council of the Royal See also:Academy. He died at Paris in 1703. His engravings of Le Brun's " Battles of See also:Alexander " are regarded as the best of his numerous works. " He was," says the See also:Abbe Fontenay, " the most celebrated engraver that ever existed in the See also:historical See also:line.

We have several subjects, which he engraved from his own designs, that manifested as much See also:

taste as See also:character and facility. But in the ` Battles of Alexander' he surpassed even the expectations of Le Brun himself." Gerard published in 1683 a See also:work entitled See also:Les Proportions du See also:corps humain mesurees sur les plus belles figures de l'antiquite.

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