Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella

Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella was a French engraver.

Life

She was born at Lyons in about 1641,[1] the daughter of Étienne Bouzonnet, a goldsmith, and his wife, Madeleine Stella (sister of the artist Jacques Stella).[2] Her siblings included Antoine and Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella.[1]

According to Joseph Strutt:

She made more use of the point than her sister [i.e. Claudine], and etched in a very powerful style. She harmonized the roughness, left by the aqua-fortis, with the graver, in such a manner as to produce a pleasing effect. She drew correctly, especially the extremities of the human figure, which she expressed with great taste.[3]

She died in Paris at the age of 35 in 1676, having suffered a fall.[1] A third sister, Françoise, was also an engraver.[4]

Works

Her works include:[4]

  • Romulus and Remus suckled by a Wolf; after Antoine Bouzonnet Stella.
  • The Entry of the Emperor Sigismund into Mantua; after a stucco frieze by Giulio Romano.
  • Engravings by Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella depicting the Entry of Emperor Sigismund into Mantua

References
  1. "Antoinette Bouzonnet Stella". Washington, D.C.: National Museum of Women in the Arts. Retrieved 2013-01-29.
  2. Jeffares, Neil. "STELLA, Claudine Bouzonnet-" (PDF). Dictionary of pastellists before 1800 (online edition).
  3. Strutt, Joseph (1786). A Biographical Dictionary Containing All the Engravers, From the Earliest Period of the Art of Engraving to the Present Day. Vol. 2. London: Robert Faulder. p. 339.
  4. Bryan 1886

Sources
  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Bouzonnet, Antoinette". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.


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