Jacques-Philippe Bottom

Jacques-Philippe Bottom or Lebas , born in 1707 with Paris where he died in 1783, is a engraver French.

Bottom was engraver of the Cabinet of the king and successfully produced a great number of boards according to various Masters. One counts of him more than 500 parts, of which here most remarkable:

Works

  • Works of mercy , large board in copper-plate engraving according to Teniers;
  • the Prodigal son , during the preceding one, according to the same one;
  • a continuation of Village f4etes , in copper-plate engraving;
  • the wild Wild boar , large board in copper-plate engraving according to Wouvermans;
  • Hunting for Italian the and the Pot with milk , two large boards in copper-plate engraving according to the same one and making during;
  • the Departure of hunting ; the Catch of the héron , two boards in copper-plate engraving making during, according to Van Falens;
  • the Appointment of hunting ; the Happy Hunter , two boards according to the same one;
  • the Alliance of Bacchus and Come , average board according to Nicolas Coypel;
Various large portraits according to Verner and many parts according to van of Velde, Parrocel, Berchem, Ruysdaël, Watteau Oudry, Lancret, etc

Sources

  • Ferdinand Hoefer, New general Biography , T. 30, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1881, p. 65

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