Edme Bovinet

Battle of Dresden

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 a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Bovinet, Edme". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

Entrèe des Français à Berlin 1806 by Jacques François Joseph Swebach-Desfontaines