Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella

Auca of children’s games.

Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella, called C. Stella, was the niece of Jacques Stella, and was born at Lyons in 1636. She learned the principles of design from her uncle, but applied herself to engraving, in which she greatly distinguished herself. Her plates are cliiefly 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. Her design is correct, and the characters of the heads are admirably expressed. She died in Paris in 1697 The following are her best prints:

• A set of seventeen plates of pastoral subjects, including the title; after Jacques Stella.
• Fifty plates of the Sports of Children, and rural subjects ; after the same.
• The Marriage of St. Catharine; after the same.
• Moses found in the Bulrushes; in two plates; after N. Poussin.
• Moses striking the Rock; after the same; very fine.
• The Crucifixion, called the Great Calvary; after the same; very fine.
• St. Peter and St. John curing the Lame Man; after the same.
• The Holy Family, with St. Elisabeth and St. John; after the same.
• Another Holy Family, with children bringing flowers; after the same.

References

This article incorporates text from the article "BOUZONNET, Claudine" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.

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Name	Bouzonnet-Stella, Claudine
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Date of birth	1636
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Date of death	1697
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