Gilles-Louis Chrétien

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Physionotrace portrait of Gilles-Louis Chrétien, 1792

Gilles-Louis Chrétien (5 February 1754 – 4 March 1811) was a French cellist and engraver.

Chrétien was born at Versailles. In 1787 he invented a machine called a "

Samuel Iperusz Wiselius and Quint Ondaatje
, who fled to France or visited Paris, ordered sets of physionotraces. Chrétien died in Paris in 1811.


References

  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainBryan, Michael (1886). "Chretien, Gilles Louis". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.