A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF
SUBJECTS AFTER TARIODS MASTERS.
The Adoration of the Shepherds ; after Bassano. Christ driving the Money-changers from the Temple; after the same The ancient Temple at Ephesus ; after Breenherg. Kuins at Ephesus ; after the same. A Landscape, with cattle ; after A. van de Velde. The Sailor's Amnsemeut ; after 1). Teniers. The Dutch Baker ; after A. Ostade. View of the Castle of St. Angelo ; after Vernet. His two sisters, Tueuese and Victoibe Chenu, alsu received le.ssoQs from Le Bas, and engraved some landscapes.
CHEREAU, FRANgois, a French engraver, was born at Blois in 1680. He was a pupil of Gerard Audran, and of Pierre Drevet, the elder, and proved himself a worthy euccesBor of these masters. He distinguished himself by the beauty of his touch and the correctness of his drawing, particularly in his portraits, some of which are admirable. His portrait of the Duke of Antin, after Rigaud, which he engraved twice, has rarely been surpassed. He died in Paris in 1729. The number of his plates is con- siderable, but the following are the most esteemed :
rOBTBAITS.
Louis de BouUougne; after himself ; engraved by Oherean for his reception into the Academy in 1718. Nicolas de Largilliere, painter ; after himself. Cardinal Andre Hercule de Fleury ; after Higaud ; finc- Cardiual Melchior de Polignac ; after the satne; very fine. Louis Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin,Dukeof Anti)i ; after the same. Nicolas de Laimay ; after the same. Conrad Detlev von Dehn ; after the same; very fine. Louis Pecour, Maitre de Ballet ; after Tournieres. Elisabeth Sophie Cheron, painter ; after herself. Louisa Mary, Princess of England ; after A. S. Belle. The Princess Sobieska ; after Trinisani.
SUBJECTS AFTER VARIOUS MASTERS.
St. John in the Wilderness ; after the picture bv Raphael, in the Orleans Gallery. The Crucifixion ; after Guido. St. Catharine of Siena ; after J. A ndre. St. Cecilia ; after liliynard. St. Theresa in Contemplation. St. Ignatius de Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus.
CHEREAU, Jacques, the brother and pupil of Francois Chereau, was born at Blois in 1688. He engraved portraits and historical subjects, and was little inferior to his brother, but he did not execute many plates, having quitted the graver to follow the business of a printseller. He came to England, but not meeting with much encouragement, he returned to France, and died in Paris in 1776. The following are his best works :
POKTRAITS. Marie Leszczynska, Queen of France ; after Van Loo Madame de Sabran ; after the same. Madame de Prie ; after tlie same. Henri. Duke of Harcourt, marshal of France ; after Rigaud. Madame de Sevigne. George I., King of Great Britain ; profile, «/<«■ KntUer. Jeanne d'Aragon, Queen of Sicily ; after Rapluui.
SUBJECTS AFTER VARIOUS MASTERS.
The Holy Family ; after Raphael ; in the Crozst Collection. La Belle Jardiniere ; after the aatm ; in the same Collection. Tlie Transfiguration ; after the same. David with the Head of Goliath ; after Teti; very fine. Da'id and Bathsbeba ; after Raotue. Chri.st washing the Feet of the Apostles ; after X. ISertin. Verturanus and Pomona ; after F. Marot. The Descent from the Cross ; after Charpentier. Jacques Franqois Chereau, the grandson of Franfois Chereau, born in 1748, was likewise an engraver and printseller.
CHERET. See Lachaume.
CHERON, Elisabeth Suphie, a miniature painter, was the daughter of Henri Cheron, and was born in Paris in 1647. She learnt the elementary principles of design from her father, and executed with much grace portraits, many of which were of ladies, in water-colour, oil, pastel, and enamel; her colouring being pleasing and her draperies well handled. She produced also numerous drawings of bas-reliefs and cameos after the antique. She was admitted as a painter into the Academy at Paris in 1G72, painting her own portrait upon the occasion, and into that of Padua in 1699. She was a lady of some literary power, accomplished as a musician and a poetess. It is stated that she was enrolled in the Academy in the latter capacity in 1076. She married, in 1708, Jacques Le Hay, an engineer, being at that time a member of the Roman Catholic Church, though she had been brought up in the Protestant religion. There is an engraved portrait of her which she executed in part in 1694, and which was subsequently finished by C. Simonneau. She died in Paris in 1711. Shehas left us some 59 plates either etched or engraved, among which may be mentioned : The Descent from the Cross (1710) ; from her own painting after a design of the Abbe Zunibo. St. Cecilia, St. Mary Magdalen, St. Augustin, St. John, and St. Paul ; after Raphael. Four plates of Gems (two dated 1710). A drawing-book of thirty-six prints ; published in 1706.
CHERON, Henri, a miniature painter and en- graver, was a native of Bleaux, where he worked about the middle of the 17th century. We have but one engraving by him; a spirited portrait touched with considerable delicacy, representing Peter Dumoulin, a Calvinist Minister, who died at Sedan in 1058. Henri Cheron was the father of Louis, Elisabeth Sophie, and Marie Anne Charon. He died at Lyons in 1677.
CHERON, Louis, a French painter and engraver, was born in Paris in 1656. He was instructed by his father, Henri Cheron, and went to Italy, where he studied the works of Raph;el and Giulio Romano. Returning to Paris in 1688, he painted for the cathedral of Notre-Dame two pictures, representing the 'Prophet Agabus before St. Paul,' and ' Herodias with the Head of St. John the Baptist.' His drawing is correct, but his colouring is cold and feeble, and his composition tame and inanimate. Being a Calvinist, the religious troubles which were then rife obliged him in 1695 to leave France, when he came to England, and was emploj'ed by some of the nobility, and more particularly by the Duke of Montagu, for whom he painted some ornamental works. His ' Diana and her Nymphs bathing' has been engraved by Baron ; and his picture of ' The Marriage of Charles 1. and Henrietta Maria,' by Dupuis. He died in London in 1725. This artist engraved some plates from his own designs, which are for the most part well drawn, with a distinct attempt at Raphael's style, bit are deficient in general effect, the smaller plates for the Psalms being very indifferent works. He also made designs
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