Pierre-François Laurent

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Pierre-François Laurent was an engraver and co-director with Louis-Nicolas-Joseph Robillard de Péronville of the publication Le Musée français. As an engraver, he specialised in landscapes and genre subjects after Dutch artists. He also produced several engravings of subjects from the recent national history. Born in Marseille, he received the award for drawing at the Académie des arts de Marseille in 1756. He studied engraving with Jean-Joseph Balechou in Avignon in 1757; and somewhat later he studied etching with Étienne Fessard, who held the position of Engraver of the King's Library in Paris. Laurent's ambition to publish engravings of the collection of paintings and drawings of the King evidently dates from this experience, for it was a specific charge of Fessard's appointment. Read more

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