Claude Duflos, a French engraver

Engraving

Engraving is the practice of incising a design on to a hard, usually flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing...

, was born in Paris in 1665, and died in the same city in 1727. It is not known by whom he was instructed, but his style resembles that of François Poilly. We have by this artist a great number of plates, executed principally with the graver

Burin

Burin from the French burin meaning "cold chisel" has two specialised meanings for types of tools in English, one meaning a steel cutting tool which is the essential tool of engraving, and the other, in archaeology, meaning a special type of lithic flake with a chisel-like edge which was probably...

, and very neatly finished. The following are the most deserving of notice:

Portraits

• Philip, Duke of Orleans
  Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
  Philippe d'Orléans was a member of the royal family of France and served as Regent of the Kingdom from 1715 to 1723. Born at his father's palace at Saint-Cloud, he was known from birth under the title of Duke of Chartres...
  
  ; after R. Tournières
  Robert Tournières
  Robert Le Vrac de Tournières was a French painter. After the Second World War, a street in the new Saint-Paul district of his birthplace of Caen was named rue Robert Tournières.-Life:...
  
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• Jean-François-Paul de Gondy, Cardinal de Retz.
• Denis-François de Chavigny, Bishop of Troyes.
• Nicolas Lyon, Procureur du Roi; after Herluyson.
• Jean Jacques Gaudart, Conseiller du Roi; after Largillière
  Nicolas de Largillière
  Nicolas de Largillière was a painter born in Paris, France.-Early life:Largillière's father, a merchant, took him to Antwerp at the age of three. As a boy, he spent nearly two years in London. Sometime after his return to Antwerp, a failed attempt at business led him to the studio of Goubeau...
  
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• Marc René de Voyer; after Hyacinthe Rigaud
  Hyacinthe Rigaud
  Hyacinthe Rigaud was a French baroque painter of Catalan origin whose career was based in Paris.He is renowned for his portrait paintings of Louis XIV, the royalty and nobility of Europe, and members of their courts and considered one of the most notable French portraitists of the classical period...
  
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Subjects after various masters

• The Entombment of Christ; after P. Perugino
  Pietro Perugino
  Pietro Perugino , born Pietro Vannucci, was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school, who developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance...
  
  ; for the Crozat Collection
  Pierre Crozat
  thumb|265px|[[Rembrandt]]'s painting [[Danaë |Danae]] from Crozat's collection.Pierre Crozat was a French art collector at the center of a broad circle of cognoscenti; he was the brother of Antoine Crozat....
  
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• The same subject; after Raphael
  Raphael
  Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino , better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur...
  
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• St. Michael discomfiting the Evil Spirit; after the same; for the Crozat Collection.
• Christ with the Disciples at Emmaus; after Paolo Veronese
  Paolo Veronese
  Paolo Veronese was an Italian painter of the Renaissance in Venice, famous for paintings such as The Wedding at Cana and The Feast in the House of Levi...
  
  ; for the Crozat Collection.
• 'The Adulteress before Christ; after N. Colombel
  Nicolas Colombel
  Nicolas Colombel, a French painter, was born at Sotteville, near Rouen, about 1644. He went to Rome when quite young, and remainedthere until 1692, forming his style by a study of the works of Raphael and of Nicolas Poussin...
  
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• Christ at table with the Disciples; after Titian
  Titian
  Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488/1490 – 27 August 1576 better known as Titian was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near...
  
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• Bust of the Virgin; after Guido
  Guido Reni
  Guido Reni was an Italian painter of high-Baroque style.-Biography:Born in Bologna into a family of musicians, Guido Reni was the son of Daniele Reni and Ginevra de’ Pozzi. As a child of nine, he was apprenticed under the Bolognese studio of Denis Calvaert. Soon after, he was joined in that...
  
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• The Annunciation; after Albani
  Francesco Albani
  Francesco Albani or Albano was an Italian Baroque painter.-Early years in Bologna:Born 1578 in Bologna, his father was a silk merchant who intended to instruct his son in the same trade; but by age twelve, Albani became an apprentice under the competent mannerist painter Denis Calvaert, where he...
  
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• Christ appearing to Mary Magdalen; after the same.
• St. Cecilia; after P. Mignard
  Pierre Mignard
  Pierre Mignard , called "Le Romain" to distinguish him from his brother Nicolas Mignard, was a French painter...
  
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• The Presentation in the Temple; after Le Sueur
  Eustache Le Sueur
  Eustache Le Sueur or Lesueur , one of the founders of the French Academy of Painting, was born in Paris, where he passed his whole life....
  
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• The Descent from the Cross; after the same.
• The Murder of the Innocents; after Le Brun
  Charles Le Brun
  Charles Le Brun , a French painter and art theorist, became the all-powerful, peerless master of 17th-century French art.-Biography:-Early life and training:...
  
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• Christ on the Mount of Olives; after the same.
• The Crucifixion; after the same.
• The same subject; after the same; from the print by Edelinck
  Gerard Edelinck
  Gerard Edelinck , was a Flemish copper-plate engraver.Edelinck was born in Antwerp, where he received his early training from the engraver Cornelis Galle. He then went to Paris to improve himself under the teaching of De Poilly...
  
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• The Dead Christ, with the Virgin and St. John; after the same.
• The Descent of the Holy Ghost; after the same.
• The Assumption of the Virgin; after the same.
• The Penitent Magdalen; after the same.
• The Annunciation; after A. Coypel
  Antoine Coypel
  Antoine Coypel was a history painter, the more famous son of the French painter Noël Coypel.Antoine studied under his father, with whom he spent four years at Rome. At the age of eighteen he was admitted into the Académie de peinture et de sculpture, of which he became professor and rector in...
  
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• The Crucifixion; after the same.
• The Magdalen at the foot of the Cross; after the same.
• A Concert; after Domenichino.
• The Triumph of Galatea; after the same.
• Cupid stung by a Bee; after the same.
• The same subject; smaller and circular.
• Bacchus and Ariadne; after the same.
• The Triumph of Bacchus; after C. Natoire
  Charles-Joseph Natoire
  Charles-Joseph Natoire was a French painter in the Rococo manner, a pupil of François Lemoyne and director of the French Academy in Rome, 1751-1775...
  
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• The Triumph of Amphitrite; after the same.