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 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). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.