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(1) Etienne Picart
(b Paris, 21 Oct 1632; d Amsterdam, 12 Nov 1721). Engraver and print publisher. He was the son of Bernard Picart, a Paris bookseller, and trained as engraver with François de Poilly I. He was a friend of the engraver Guillaume Vallet (1632–1704), and from 1655 to 1661 they were in Rome together; from this derives Picart’s sobriquet of ‘le Romain’. In Rome, Picart made engravings after Reni, Domenichino, Tintoretto and Francesco Albani and in 1658 engraved a frontispiece for a thesis after Maratti. Having returned to France, Picart and Vallet were admitted in 1664 to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. Towards the end of his life Picart emigrated to the Netherlands.
Part of the Picart family
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