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Huret, Grégoire
(b Lyon, 24 Oct 1606; d Paris, 5 Jan 1670). French engraver, draughtsman and writer. He is thought to have been a pupil of Charles Audran. Early in his career he worked for print-sellers in Lyon. He settled in Paris c. 1635 and in 1663 was received (reçu) by the Académie Royale with his Théâtre de la Passion de Nostre Seigneur (Weigert, nos 407–38), the drawings for which are in the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid. In 1670 he published a treatise on portraiture, in which he opposed the theories of Gérard Desargues and Abraham Bosse. He left c. 490 plates, smooth and silvery in execution, mostly of his own design, but some after works by Sébastien Bourdon, Philippe de Champaigne, Charles Le Brun and Peter Paul Rubens. They comprise c. 270 book illustrations, including vignettes and frontispieces, some of them with complex iconography (W 269–90); c. 150 scenes from the New Testament and depictions of saints; c. 60 portraits; and several images for religious societies, such as that for the Confrérie de St Eustache et de Ste Agnès (W 150). He also made designs for other engravers, notably Claude Charpignon ( fl mid-17th century), Jean Couvay, Claude Goyrand ( fl 1627–49), François Ragot (d 1670) and Gilles Rousselet.
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