Jean Mauger

Jean Mauger , born with Dieppe in 1648 and died in Paris the September 9th 1712, is a medaillist and engraver on copper French.

After a training of engraver on ivory, art which flowered then in its birthplace, Jean Mauger was called towards 1677 in Paris, with its compatriot Michel Mollart, by Louvois.

Raise Jean Varin, Jean Mauger was medaillist of Louis XIV. He engraved alone 260 medals of the sovereign in six years.

Sources

  • Leonard Forrer, Biographical dictionary off medallists-corner, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, &c., ancient and modern , vol. 3, London, Spink & Its, 1907, p. 616-7
  • Michel Claude Guibert, Michel Hardy, Mémoires to be used with the history of the city as Dieppe , T. I , Rouen, CH. Smallholding, A. Leblanc, 1878, p. 374-5
  • Emile Haag, Protestant France , T. 7, Paris, Sandoz Bookstore and Fischbacher, 1854, p. 336
  • Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon, Memories of Saint-Simon , Paris, Hatchet, 1893

External bond

  • Jean Mauger on the basis Mona Lisa

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