The Origin of the Graces: Illustrated With the Original Copperplate Engravings (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Cochin had inherited a competency from his family and was received in good society. Madame de Pompadour took him into favour and obtained for him the post of draughtsman of the royal menus-plaisirs, the duties of which office consisted in depicting the various festivities and ceremonies of the court. Cochin, in this capacity, made numerous drawings of royal and princely marriages, receptions, balls, ballets, promenades, and funerals, and nearly the whole of these drawings were engraved on copper, either by himself or others. Most of these engravings are nowadays extremely rare, and command remarkably high prices. The talent which Cochin displayed as a delineator of court life led Louis XV. To grant him a patent of nobility, and to create him a knight of the royal order of St Michael. Madame de Pompadour, moreover, selected him to accompany her young brother, M. De Vandieres, on a journey to Italy in the capacity of artistic mentor and Cicerone and subsequently, when she was seized with a desire to practise art herself, she appointed him her professor of engraving. Another of the royal favourite's brothers, the well-known Marquis de Marigny, who was the official superin tendent of fine arts, made Cochin his everyday companion, and always consulted him on matters of the least importance. More over, Diderot, who called him the first draughtsman of France, invariably sought his advice before penning his curious critiques on the Salon.

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