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Duchange, Gaspard
(b Paris, April 1662; d Paris, 6 Jan 1757). French printmaker, print-seller and print publisher. He was a pupil of Guillaume Vallet (1632–1704). He was appointed Graveur du Roi and accepted (agréé) by the Académie Royale in 1704; he was received (reçu) in 1707 with his portraits, both after Hyacinthe Rigaud, of Charles de La Fosse (Roux, no. 10) and François Girardon (R 9). He enjoyed a considerable reputation: according to Claude-Henri Watelet he was one of the printmakers who were able to produce the softest effects in engraving and who knew how best to suggest the velvety texture of a woman’s skin; in this domain he was often imitated but never equalled. His reproductions of Corregio’s Io (R 8), Leda (R 16) and Danaë (R 33) are among the most celebrated of his works, which are not numerous; only 58 have been identified, probably owing to his activities as a print publisher. He distributed works by Laurent Cars and his family, by Jacques-Philippe Lebas and by the Audran family. He also collaborated with Jean-Marc Nattier in executing and publishing reproductions after Peter Paul Rubens for the Galerie du Luxembourg (R 11–15), a compilation for which he himself engraved some plates. He also made several plates for La Galerie du Président Lambert and for the Coronation of Louis XV (1728; R 38–41), after Nicolas Dulin, and studies (1722) of parts of Raphael’s cartoons of the Acts of the Apostles (London, Hampton Court, Royal Col.).
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