Jean Jacques Flipart

Jean Jacques Flipart (1719 – 10 July 1782) was a French engraver.

Biography

Flipart was born in Paris. His father was the engraver Jean Charles Flipart, under whom he received his initial training in the engraver's art. His brother Charles Joseph Flipart, who was later noted both for his engraving and painting oeuvre, also received his initial training under the father's hand.

Flipart later trained under French engraving master Laurent Cars (1699–1771).^[1] He died in Paris in 1782.

Engravings

Among the famous works of Flipart:

• Portrait of J. B.
  Greuze
  .
• Portrait of Jacques Dumont le Romain; after
  de la Tour
  .
• The Holy Family; after Giulio Romano.
• Adam and Eve; after
  Charles Joseph Natoire
  .
• Venus presenting the Arms to Aeneas; after the same.
• A Sea-storm at Night; after
  Vernet
  .
• A Sea-storm by Day; after the same.
• Christ curing the Paralytic; after Dietrich.
• A Bear-hunt; after
  Carle van Loo
  .
• A Tiger-hunt; after François Boucher.
• The Battle of the Centaurs and Lapiths.

Gallery

• 
  Madonna with the Washbasin (c. 1750)
• 
  Philippe II
• 
  Le Dessinateur (1757)
• 
  La Pelotonneuse
• 
  Competition for the Prize for the Study of Heads and Expression (1763)
• 
  Belphegor
• 
  Jesus heals the paralyzed (1767)

References

1. ^ Michael Bryan, Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, biographical and critical Vol. I, George Bell and Sons, 4 York Street, Covent Garden, London (1886), p. 505

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