Marie-Jeanne Renard du Bos (1701 – between 1730 and 1750) was a French engraver.
Biography
She was probably born in Paris and became a pupil of Charles Dupuis. She engraved several paintings, including a painting by Francoise Basseporte of a woman at half-length stroking a rabbit, that was published in Versailles immortalisée in 1720. She was mentioned for this in Louis-Marie Prudhomme's dictionary of famous women. Prudhomme claimed the year of her death was unknown in 1830.
She probably died in Paris.
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Summer (from the Crozat Seasons), after Antoine Watteau; Harvard Art Museums
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The Circumcision of Christ, after Giulio Romano; British Museum, London
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L'Age viril, after Charles-Nicolas Cochin fils; National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen
References
- Also spelled Dubos, as in the Web Gallery of Art profile.
- Marie-Jeanne Renard du Bos in the RKD
- Louis-Marie Prudhomme's biography on Google books
Further reading
- Bellier de la Chavignerie, Émile and Auvray, Louis (1882). Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'école française depuis l'origine des arts du dessin jusqu'à nos jours (in French). Vol. 1. Paris: Renouard. p. 457. OCLC 1042892305 – via the Internet Archive.
- Bénézit, Emmanuel (2006) . Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Vol. 4. Paris: Gründ. p. 1215. ISBN 2-7000-3074-5 – via the Internet Archive.
- Fort, J.-M. (1967). "Du Bos (Marie-Jeanne Renard)". In Roman d'Amat, Jean-Charles and Limouzin-Lamothe, Roger (eds.). Dictionnaire de biographie française (in French). Vol. 11. Paris: Letouzey et Ané. col. 1008. OCLC 253353060.
- Portalis, Roger; Béraldi, Henri (1882). Les graveurs du dix-huitième siècle [Engravers of the Eighteenth Century] (in French). Vol. 3 (pt. 2). Paris: D. Morgand et C. Fatout. p. 732. OCLC 1050245691 – via the Internet Archive.
- Ritter, Catrin (2001). "Du Bos (Dubos), Marie-Jeanne Renard". In Kasten, Eberhard; et al. (eds.). Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (in German). Vol. 30. München, Leipzig: Saur. p. 79. ISBN 3-598-22770-1. OCLC 491513403.
- Vollmer, Hans, ed. (1934). "Renard du Bos, Marie Jeanne". Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler (in German). Vol. 28. Leipzig: E. A. Seemann. p. 156. OCLC 1150274387.
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