Louis de Chastillon, a French painter in enamel

Vitreous enamel

Vitreous enamel, also porcelain enamel in U.S. English, is a material made by fusing powdered glass to a substrate by firing, usually between 750 and 850 °C...

 and miniature

Portrait miniature

A portrait miniature is a miniature portrait painting, usually executed in gouache, watercolour, or enamel.Portrait miniatures began to flourish in 16th century Europe and the art was practiced during the 17th century and 18th century...

, and an engraver

Engraving

Engraving is the practice of incising a design on to a hard, usually flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing...

, was born at Ste. Ménehould

Sainte-Menehould

Sainte-Menehould is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France.The town and its several restaurants pride themselves on serving a local specialty called pied de cochon or pig's trotters....

 in Champagne

Champagne, France

Champagne is a historic province in the northeast of France, now best known for the sparkling white wine that bears its name.Formerly ruled by the counts of Champagne, its western edge is about 100 miles east of Paris. The cities of Troyes, Reims, and Épernay are the commercial centers of the area...

 about 1639. He excelled in enamel painting, and executed all the portraits which the king gave, set in jewels, to the foreign ambassadors. He engraved several large plates after the designs of Tortebat, and appears to have been an imitator of the fine style of Gérard Audran

Gérard Audran

Gérard Audran , was a French engraver of the Audran family, the third son of Claude Audran....

. His prints are not without merit, though greatly inferior to those of his model. He died in the Louvre

Louvre

The Musée du Louvre – in English, the Louvre Museum or simply the Louvre – is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement...

 in 1734. We have by him the following plates:

• The Adulteress before Christ; after S. Bourdon
  Sébastien Bourdon
  Sébastien Bourdon was a French painter and engraver. His chef d'œuvre is The Crucifixion of St. Peter made for the cathedral of Notre Dame....
  
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• The Conversion of St. Paul; after the same.
• The Seven Sacraments; after Poussin
  Nicolas Poussin
  Nicolas Poussin was a French painter in the classical style. His work predominantly features clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color. His work serves as an alternative to the dominant Baroque style of the 17th century...
  
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• St. John in the Isle of Patmos; after the same.
• Jupiter and Leda; after the same.
• The Fates spinning the Destiny of Marie de' Medici; after Rubens.
• Two sets of prints of the Fountains at Versailles.
• A set of plates of the Pavilions at Marly.