Claudine Bouzonnet
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Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella (b. 1636, d. 1697) was a French engraver, most of whose prints were after works by Nicholas Poussin, or by her uncle Jacques Stella. She was born at Lyon in 1636, the daughter of Étienne Bouzonnet, a goldsmith, and his wife, Madeleine Stella. She studied art under her uncle, Jacques Stella, and applied herself to engraving, in which she greatly distinguished herself. Her plates are mostly after the pictures of Jacques Stella and Nicolas Poussin; and perhaps no artist has been so successful in engravings after the latter painter, she having greatly surpassed Jean Pesne. A set of fifty plates by Bouzonnet Stella, Les Jeux et Plaisirs de l'Enfance, after drawings by Jacques Stella, was published in Paris 1657.
Joseph Strutt wrote of her prints:
If they be not executed with that precision and neatness, which are found in the best French masters, they possess such beauties as overbalance all defects of that nature. The naked parts of the figures are exceedingly well-drawn; and the characters of the heads are finely expressed. She delineated the other extremities with great taste and correctness.
She died in Paris in 1697. Her four siblings were all artists.
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