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(1) Charles-Nicolas Cochin I [le père]
(b Paris, 29 April 1688; d Paris, 16 July 1754). Engraver. He trained with his father, Charles Cochin ( fl 1687–8, Paris), as a painter, but turned c. 1712 to engraving. In 1729 he was made an associate member (agréé) of the Académie Royale, and in 1731 he was received (reçu) as a full member. He was one of the best interpreters of Antoine Watteau (e.g. the Village Betrothal, 1729; Weigert no. 47), of Jean-François de Troy and of Jean-Siméon Chardin (e.g. The Washerwoman, 1739; W 257). He also contributed plates to a suite of engravings after Antoine Coypel for Don Quixote (1724; W 25–7), and to the Recueil Crozat. From the 1740s he made engravings mainly after drawings by his son.
Part of the Cochin (ii) family
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- Cochin (ii), Charles-Nicolas, I (1688-1754)
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