Antoine Borel

Antoine Borel , born in Paris in 1743 and died in 1810 , is a French painter , draftsman and engraver .
The son of a portrait painter , Borel first devoted himself to the same kind of painting, and then preferred to depict, mostly in watercolor , subjects of manners and political allegories, which he engraved at times. himself, at the tip or in a dark way. Around 1780, two nasty scenes translated by Jean-Louis Anselin were successful. Then he became almost exclusively designer thumbnails, and made himself a nam. If, in this specialty, he put his talent many times in the service of erotic books of Nerciat ,Montigny or Sade, he also made many compositions for serious works, among which Plutarch (1783), the Theater of the Greeks (1785-1789), the Works of Belloy (1787), Charles IX , tragedy of Chénier (1790) ; the Works of Regnard (1790). During the Revolution, he designed the Fasts of the French Revolution, the National Assembly, meeting of September 7, 1789, at the moment of the patriotic offer of the first time of the ladies artists , engraved by Ponce,the Last Words and the Death of Mirabeau , engraved by Delaunay the young, the frontispiece of the almanac of the father Gerard.

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