Étienne Fessard

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

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:

Portraits

Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre

• Hortensia Mancini, Duchess of Mazarin; after Ferdinand.
• Marie Madeleine de Lavergne, Countess de La Fayette; after the same.
• J. P. de Bougainville, of the French Academy; after C. N. Cochin.
• The Marquis de Mirabeau; after Van Loo.
• The Duke de Choiseul; after the same.

Subjects after various masters

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

• Diana and Actaeon; after Giacomo Bassano; for the Crozat Collection.
• The Virgin enthroned, with SS. Francis, John, and Catharine; after Correggio.
• The Holy Family, with St. Charles Borromeo; after Scarsellino.
• The Four Liberal Arts, personified by Children; four plates ; after C. van Loo.
• Jupiter and Antiope; after the same. 1758.
• Herminia armed as Clorinda; after J. B. Pierre.
• The Birth of Venus; after F. de Troy.
• Jupiter and Leda; after the same.
• The Triumph of Galatea; after Bouchardon; etched by Count de Caylus, and finished by Fessard.
• The Triumph of Bacchus; after the same ; etched by Count de Caylus, and finished by Fessard.
• The Nativity; after Boucher.
• A Flemish Festival; after Rubens. 1762.
• Psyche abandoned by Cupid; after Le Moine.

References

This article incorporates text from the article "FESSARD, Etienne" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.