Jacques-Philippe Le Bas

Jacques- Philippe Le Bas or Lebas (* 1707, † 1783 in Paris) was a French engraver of the Rococo.

Life

Le Bas was a pupil of the engraver and illustrator Antoine Herisset (1685-1769) in Paris, due to its architectural views ( Palace of Versailles ) and maps ( Forêt de Fontainebleau ) was known at that time. He stabbed at foreign templates; in his time were engravings after masterpieces of art history very popular and a coveted collector's item. From Le Bas over 500 stitches are known. By Stich The preaching of John the Baptist after a painting by Pier Francesco Mola (1612-1666), he has made known to the educated society of the French Rococo. The Dutch Baroque painter Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem (1620-1683), Philip Wouwerman (1619-1668), Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685) and the imitator Wouwermans, Carel van Falens (1683-1733), were initially the preferred master, after which Le Bas trained his engraving technique but the artist, after he prefers to work later, was David Teniers ( 1610-1690 ). Le Bas to transfer the exhilaration and the fine brushwork of his model in the copper engraving technique, which he often revised with the drypoint technique, mind. One knows from Le Bas over 100 stitches after Teniers; next one counts more than 30 engravings after Claude Joseph Vernet ( 1714-1789 ), an active painter at the court of Louis XV.

He was the most popular and busiest French engraver, but he has also frequently signed prints, which came under his direction by the hand of his students. Le Bas, has brought a hundred years after Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), rediscovered drypoint and greatest perfection. In 1771 he became a member of the Académie royale (now Académie des Beaux -Arts ), in 1782 awarded him the title of Louis XVI Royal engraver. The well-known portrait of Le Bas ' was by his student Charles- Etienne Gaucher (1741-1804), who made a name for himself as a portrait painter in France stung. Le Bas died on 14 April 1783 in Paris.

Works

By Pier Francesco Mola

• The preaching of John the Baptist

By David Teniers the Younger

• The Seven Acts of Mercy
• The Prodigal Son
• The Temptation of Saint Anthony (two versions)