Étienne Fessard

Étienne Fessard, a French engraver, was born in Paris in 1714. He was a pupil of Edme Jeaurat, and proved an artist of sufficient merit to be appointed one of the engravers to the king. He died in Paris in 1774. He executed a considerable number of plates, among which are the following:

The Holy Family, with St. Charles Borromeo; after Scarsellino, ca. 1750

Portraits

Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre

Subjects after various masters

The Virgin enthroned, with SS. Francis, John, and Catharine; after Correggio, ca. 1750

References

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


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