BAUDET Etienne

(Blois 1638 – Paris 1711)

French engraver born in Vineuil near Blois in the department of Loir-et-Cher. A farmer’s son, he was a student of the painter Sebastien Burdon and of Cornelis Bloemaert, a famous Dutch painter and etcher, both also active in Italy.

Following the example of his master Blomaert, his early works were carried out with the use of burin, but once he returned from Italy to France he enriched his technique with skillful use of drypoint imitating the manner of Jean Baptiste de Poilly.

His prints, about sixty engravings, were derived from subjects of Poussin, Albani, Domenichino, Lanfranco and other Italian and French masters.

In 1675 it became membre of the Académie Royale de Peinture and in 1693 was appointed graveur du Roy.

He settled at the Louvre in the service of Louis XIV where he completed the series of engravings of the collection Statues et Bustes Antiques initiated by the famous French painter and engraver Claude Mellan.