Marie-Jeanne Renard du Bos

Marie-Jeanne Renard du Bos[1] (1701 between 1730 and 1750) was a French engraver.

Biography

She was probably born in Paris and became a pupil of Charles Dupuis.[2] She engraved several paintings, including a painting by Francoise Basseporte of a woman at half-length stroking a rabbit, that was published in Versailles immortalisée in 1720. She was mentioned for this in Louis-Marie Prudhomme's dictionary of famous women.[3] Prudhomme claimed the year of her death was unknown in 1830.

She probably died in Paris.

References

  1. Also spelled Dubos (as in the Web Gallery of Art profile).
  2. Marie-Jeanne Renard du Bos in the RKD
  3. Louis-Marie Prudhomme's biography on Google books

Further reading

  • Bellier de la Chavignerie, Émile [in French] and Auvray, Louis (1882). Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'école française depuis l'origine des arts du dessin jusqu'à nos jours (in French). Vol. 1. Paris: Renouard. pp. 457. OCLC 1042892305 via the Internet Archive.
  • Bénézit, Emmanuel (2006) [first published in French in 1911–1923]. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Vol. 4. Paris: Gründ. p. 1215. ISBN 2-7000-3074-5 via the Internet Archive.
  • Fort, J.-M. (1967). "Du Bos (Marie-Jeanne Renard)". In Roman d'Amat, Jean-Charles and Limouzin-Lamothe, Roger (eds.). Dictionnaire de biographie française (in French). Vol. 11. Paris: Letouzey et Ané. col. 1008. OCLC 253353060.
  • Portalis, Roger; Béraldi, Henri (1882). Les graveurs du dix-huitième siècle [Engravers of the Eighteenth Century] (in French). Vol. 3 (pt. 2). Paris: D. Morgand et C. Fatout. p. 732. OCLC 1050245691 via the Internet Archive.
  • Ritter, Catrin (2001). "Du Bos (Dubos), Marie-Jeanne Renard". In Kasten, Eberhard; et al. (eds.). Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (in German). Vol. 30. München, Leipzig: Saur. p. 79. ISBN 3-598-22770-1. OCLC 491513403.
  • Vollmer, Hans, ed. (1934). "Renard du Bos, Marie Jeanne". Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler (in German). Vol. 28. Leipzig: E. A. Seemann. p. 156. OCLC 1150274387.


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