Pierre Charles Baquoy

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Voltaire at the residence of Frederick II in Potsdam, Prussia. Partial view of an engraving by Pierre Charles Baquoy, after N. A. Monsiau.] Pierre Charles Baquoy (Paris, July 27, 1759 - Paris, February 4, 1829) was a French painter and engraver, known for depictions of famous historical characters.

In his time he was considered an eminent artist-engraver and among other things was a professor of drawing and an employee of the Musee Royal.

He was the illustrator of the Kehl edition of Voltaire [Baquoy's career is mentioned by Dr. David Charlton, 'A maitre d'orchestre . . . Conducts': New and Old Evidence on French Practice' in Early Music, Vol. 21, No. 3, French Baroque II (Aug., 1993), [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0306-1078(199308)21%3A3%3C340%3A'MD...%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q] ] and also produced some of the engravings for the 1788-1793 Complete Works of Rousseau ("Émile" and "Theátre et Poesies") [http://oasis.harvard.edu:10080/oasis/deliver/~hou01606] .

He was also one of the painters depicting contemporary society in Paris for early fashion magazines such as the Journal des Dames et des Modes [Heather Belnap Jensen, "The Journal des Dames et des Modes: Fashioning Women in the Arts, c. 1800-1815" [http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/spring_06/articles/jens_print.html] ] and "La Mesangere" (published between 1797 and 1839).

His drawings of this kind, like those of others such as the La Mesangere editor Pierre Antoine Leboux de la Mesangere, Paul Gavarni, Antoine Charles Horace Vernet and Louis-Marie Lanté are considered an essential resource for the study of the fashion and society of the time.

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* [http://www.ridinger-niemeyer.com/niemeyer/views/12538_e.php Caesarea (Straton’s Tower), view of Caius Caesar's Cenotaph. In the front, tents of a caravan. Between the foothills and the mountains in the back, galloping horsemen. 1799.]
* [http://search.famsf.org:8080/view.shtml?record=42965&=list&=1&=&=And Frederic et Voltaire, circa 1796 - 1798]
* [http://search.famsf.org:8080/view.shtml?record=27749&=list&=1&=&=And Pierre Charles Baquoy, Napoleon at St. Helen]
* [http://search.famsf.org:8080/view.shtml?record=46866&=list&=1&=&=And Les petits parrains (The little godfathers)]
* [http://revistaentrelivros.uol.com.br/Edicoes/10/artigo14511-3.asp 1787 Illustration for Chapter 19 of Voltaire's "Candide" in "Os anos que salvaram a reputação de Voltaire" (Portuguese-languague article)]
* [http://www.lib.umd.edu/MICROFORMS/costumes_parisiens.html Microfilm collection of "La Mesangere", including Baquoy's paintings, at McKeldin Library]