Auguste Gaspard Louis Desnoyers - Works

Works

Among Desnoyers's works the first place must be assigned to his engravings after the Madonnas of Raphael. These are as follow:

  • La Belle Jardinière. 1804.
  • La Vierge au Donataire. 1814.
  • La Vierge au Linge. 1814.
  • La Madonna della Sedia. 1814.
  • La Madonna del Pesce. 1822. (pictured)
  • La Madonna della Oasa d'Alba. 1837.
  • La Vierge au Berceau. 1831 .
  • La Belle Jardinière de Florence. 1841.
  • La Madonna di San Sisto. 1846. (pictured)

Desnoyers's other works include:

  • The Visitation; after Raphael. 1824.
  • St. Catharine of Alexandria; after the same. 1824.
  • The Transfiguration; after the same. 1840.
  • La Vierge aux rochers; after Leonardo da Vinci. 1812.
  • The Holy Family; after the same.
  • The Magdalen; after Correggio.
  • Eliezer and Rebekah; after Poussin. 1819.
  • Moses rescued from the Waters'; after the same. (The landscape engraved by Filhol and Niquet.)
  • Venus disarming Cupid; after Robert Lefèvre; in dotted manner. 1799.
  • The Muses and the Pierides: after Perino del Vaga. 1831.
  • Cupid and Psyche and 'Cupid bending his bow'; after drawings by Ingres from antique sculpture ; in the 'Musée Français.' 1808.
  • Ptolemy II. Philadelphus and Arsinoe; after a drawing by Ingres from an antique cameo.
  • Belisarius; after Gérard. 1806.
  • Francis I and his sister, Margaret of Navarre; after Richard. 1817.
  • Hope supporting Man to the Tomb; after Caraffa. 1801.
  • Les Pénibles Adieux; after Hilaire Ledru; in dotted manner. 1802.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul; after Robert Lefèvre. 1802.
  • Napoleon I, Emperor of the French; full-length; after Gérard. 1808.
  • Marie Louise, Empress of the French. 1810.
  • Napoleon, King of Rome; after Gérard.
  • Baron Alexander von Humboldt; an etching ; after a sketch by Gérard. 1806.
  • Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America; in dotted manner. 1801.
  • Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, Prince of Benevento; full-length; after Gérard. 1814.

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