Romain-Vincent Jeuffroy

Romain-Vincent Jeuffroy , born the July 16th 1749 with Rouen and dead the August 2nd 1826 with Bas-Prunay, close to Marly-the-King, is a engraver out of fine stones French.

After Guay had ceased working, the count of Angiviller tried to make revive engraving on stone. He decided, by his promises, Jeuffroy to be devoted to it, but he did not keep to his commitments. Then this one from went away to Rome, then with Naples where it spent ten years during which it produced many works, either in hollow, or in relief, of which several finished with the cabinet of the national library; they come from Mr. de Clermont d' Amboise, ambassador from France to Naples, which was its guard and for which he worked much.

Of return to Paris, it engraved some portraits which made him reputation, but work lack, it accepted the proposals of the king de Pologne Stanislas II and went to be established with Warsaw in 1790.

After its return to Paris, Jeuffroy was named member of the Institut in 1803. Among his portraits, one quotes those of king de Pologne, prince Lubomirski, the queen of Naples, woman of Joseph.

He was director of the Currency and, in the An XI, he contributed for the drawing of the coin of 5 Franc S. He was Chevalier of the Legion of Honor

Source

L. Dussieux, French Artists abroad , Paris, Gide and J. Baudry, 1850, p. 390-1

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