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Lombart [Lombard], Pierre
(b c. 1613; d Paris, 30 Dec 1682). French engraver. Although he was apparently trained in France, he worked from 1649 until c. 1662 in London. Some of the prints that he made there were mediocre, such as the Seven Liberal Arts after Louis Richer ( fl c. 1658) and his engravings after Francis Cleyn for John Ogilby’s translation of the works of Virgil (1654); others were of high quality (e.g. the Twelve Countesses after van Dyck). After returning to France in 1663 Lombart made interpretations of religious subjects after Nicolas Poussin, Annibale Carracci, Philippe de Champaigne and Jean Lefèbvre (1600–75), and portraits after Wallerant Vaillant, Florent de la Mare-Richart (c. 1630–1718) and Antoine Dieu, which in 1673 gained him a place in the Académie Royale. One of his most curious pieces is the equestrian portrait engraved after van Dyck, in which the heads of Charles I of England, Oliver Cromwell and Louis XIV of France appear in the successive states.
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