Charles Clément Balvay
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Charles Clément Balvay known as Bervic, was a French engraver mainly working in intaglio
and exclusively in burin
. Due to an error in transcribing the baptismal register, he is also now known as Jean Guillaume Balvay.
He served his first apprenticeship under Jean-Baptiste Le Prince
, then left aged 14 for the studio of the engraver Jean-Georges Wille
. Aged 18 he won first prize for drawing at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, of which he was elected a member in 1784. He became a member of the Académie des beaux-arts
in 1803. He won many prizes and his drawing talents were particularly appreciated.
Intaglio (printmaking)
Intaglio is a family of printmaking techniques in which the image is incised into a surface, known as the matrix or plate, and the incised line or area holds the ink. Normally, copper or zinc plates are used as a surface, and the incisions are created by etching, engraving, drypoint, aquatint or...
and exclusively in burin
Burin
Burin from the French burin meaning "cold chisel" has two specialised meanings for types of tools in English, one meaning a steel cutting tool which is the essential tool of engraving, and the other, in archaeology, meaning a special type of lithic flake with a chisel-like edge which was probably...
. Due to an error in transcribing the baptismal register, he is also now known as Jean Guillaume Balvay.
He served his first apprenticeship under Jean-Baptiste Le Prince
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince was an important French etcher and painter. Le Prince first studied painting techniques in his native Metz. He then travelled to Paris around 1750 and became a leading student of the great painter, François Boucher...
, then left aged 14 for the studio of the engraver Jean-Georges Wille
Johann Georg Wille
Johann Georg Wille was a notable German copper engraver active in Germany and France....
. Aged 18 he won first prize for drawing at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, of which he was elected a member in 1784. He became a member of the Académie des beaux-arts
Académie des beaux-arts
The Académie des Beaux-Arts is a French learned society. It is one of the five academies of the Institut de France.It was created in 1795 as the merger of the:* Académie de peinture et de sculpture...
in 1803. He won many prizes and his drawing talents were particularly appreciated.
Works
- Gabriel Senac de Meilhan (1783) after Joseph Siffred Duplessis
- Louis XVI (1790) after Antoine-François CalletAntoine-François CalletAntoine-François Callet , generally known as Antoine Callet, was a French painter of portraits and allegorical works, who acted as official portraitist to Louis XVI....
- Saint John in the desert after RaphaelRaphaelRaffaello Sanzio da Urbino , better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur...
- The Education of Achilles after Jean-Baptiste RegnaultJean-Baptiste RegnaultJean-Baptiste Regnault was a French painter.Regnault was born in Paris, and began life at sea in a merchant vessel. At the age of fifteen his talent attracted attention, and he was sent to Italy by M. de Monval under the care of Bardin...
- The Declaration after Louis Rolland TrinquesseLouis Rolland TrinquesseLouis Rolland Trinquesse was a French painter.-Drawings:*, 1788 - National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.* - Courtauld Institute of Art-Paintings:*-External links:*http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/trinquesse_louis_rolland.html...
- The Oath after Louis Rolland TrinquesseLouis Rolland TrinquesseLouis Rolland Trinquesse was a French painter.-Drawings:*, 1788 - National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.* - Courtauld Institute of Art-Paintings:*-External links:*http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/trinquesse_louis_rolland.html...