Charles Dupuis (engraver)

Charles Dupuis (1685, Paris – 3 March 1742) was a French engraver, who based many of his works on the paintings in the galleries at Versailles and the Palais-Royal.

King Henry IV, after Philippe Vleughels [nl]

As early as 1712, he was in London, together with Claude Dubosc, to assist Nicolas Dorigny in his engravings of the tapestry designs known as the "Raphael Cartoons". He was elected a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1730.

His brother, Nicolas-Gabriel Dupuis, was also a well known engraver.

Selected works

• Earth and Air, after Louis Boullogne
• Saint John in the Desert
• The Marriage of the Virgin, after Van Loo

Sources

  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bouillet, Marie-Nicolas; Chassang, Alexis, eds. (1878). Dictionnaire Bouillet (in French). {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)