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Schuppen, Pierre-Louis van
(b Antwerp, 5 Sept 1627; d Paris, 7 March 1702). Flemish engraver, active in France. He studied painting in Antwerp in 1639–40 and became a master in 1651–2. His first-known print, a portrait of the Duchess of Newcastle (Hollstein, no. 108), dates from 1655, the year he settled in Paris. As a pupil and collaborator of Robert Nanteuil (e.g. Mazarin in his Gallery; ?1659), van Schuppen quickly became famous and was nicknamed ‘le petit Nanteuil’. On 7 August 1663 he entered the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. Because he worked carefully and slowly, he left only 155 prints, 130 of them portraits after Philippe de Champaigne, Nicolas de Largillierre, Charles Le Brun and Pierre Mignard; only eight were his own compositions. Van Schuppen also engraved several coats of arms and some religious subjects. His tones are soft and stippled, but his lines are sometimes rather monotonous. His engravings are often dated, sometimes with the month. Seventeen of his drawings, in black chalk, are preserved in the Albertina, Vienna.
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