Benoit-Louis Prévost

Benoit-Louis Prévost , born towards 1735 with Paris and died in 1804, is a engraver French.

Raise Jean Ouvrier, Prévost was a skilful engraver copper plate engraver and with the point of labels which engraved, in a quite superb way to that of its Master. It left more than sixty works according to the drawings of Cochin, pieces which have the merit to have preserved its character at a point of perfection such as that one believes to see the same drawings. Most famous of its works is undoubtedly the frontispiece of the Encyclopédie of Diderot and of Alembert representing the Reason and Philosophy tearing off its veil with the radiant Truth of light, engraved in 1772 according to the drawing of Cochin going back to 1764.

One also owes in Prévost a Allégorie with the honor of Louis-Auguste, dolphin of France , Suite of twelve subjects , Allégories for the edition in-4° chronological summary of the French history of the president Hénault, the Portrait of Louis XV , the Portrait of Marie-Antoinette , the Portrait of Armand Thomas Hue, marquis de Miromesnil , Two of the great battles of China , Allégorie with the honor of Louis-Auguste, dolphin of France , all according to Cochin, like Joseph Ignace Guillotin according to Moreau, Voltaire going in its garden .

Sources

F E Joubert, Manual of the amateur of prints , Paris, the author, 1821, p. 387

References

Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon : die bildenden Künstler outward journey Zeiten und Völker , München, K.G. Smoked, 1992-2006
Michael Bryan, have biographical and critical dictionary off painters and engravers , London, Carpenter and Son; J. Booker; and Whittingham and Arliss, 1816

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