A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF
Naples. Royal Coll. The Book of Our Lndv, with the
rich and precious covers of Benveuuto Celliui.
„ „ A Latin Missal, with numerous
pictures {painttd for Cardinal
Fnrntse). 1546.
Paris. Louvre. A Latin Psalter. wi;h many beauti-
ful miniatures ( e.riouted for Pope
Paul III.). 1542.
Rome. Vatican Lib. Dante's Divina Commedia.
In many of his illustrations of Choral, Mass, and
Prayer-Books, and in the execution of small por-
traits for lockets, he was assisted by liis pupils,
amonpst whom were Bartolommeo Torri, Bernar-
dino Buontalenti, and Marco Du Vail.
CLOWES, BUTLEB, a mezzotint engraver, who worked in the latter half of the 18th century, and died in 1782. He engraved from his own designs, and also after Heemskerk, Stubbs, and others.
CLOWET. See Clouet.
COBERGHER. See Koeberger.
COBLENT, Hermann, (or Coblentz.) was a Flemish engraver, who flourished from about 1570 to 1590. He was a pupil of Hans Collaert. whose works Coblent's plates so much resemble in their neat and finished manner that they are often con- founded with them. Coblent marked his plates with a cipher composed of H. C- F. JCI We have by him : The Four Evangelists ; four plates. Lucretia under an Arch. A set of the Heathen Deities, single figures under Arches. A Man seated at a Table, and a Woman behind him.
COBO Y GUZJUN, Josef, a Spanish historical painter, was born in 1666, at Jaen, where he learned to paint from Valois. He settled at Cor- dova, where he died in 1746. Some paiiitin,i,'S by him are in the churches of that town, and are taste- fully executed in the style of Sebastian Martinez, by whom Valois was instructed.
COCCAPANI, SiGiSMONDO, an Italian painter, who was born at Florence in 1585. He at first studied literature and mathematics, but abandoned tliem for painting, and became a scholar of Cigoli. In 1610 he went to Italy, and after his return home gained considerable reputation both as a painter and an architect. He died in 1642.
COCCETTI, PiETKO Paolo, was a native of Italy, who flourished about the year 1725. He engraved some plates of architectural subjects, which are executed in a slight, indifferent style.
COCCHI, PoMPEO, was a painter who lived in the early part of the 16th century. In the cathedral of Periigia is a ' Virgin and Child ' by him with the date 'Anno m.d. xxv.' (? 1527). No certain in- formation exists with respect to his birth or death.
COCHEREAU, Leon Mateieu, was a French painter, born at Montigny-le-Gannelon near Cha- teaudun in 1793. He was a pupil of David, of the interior of whose studio he has left us a paint- ing which now hangs in the Louvre. He died on the coast of Africa in 1817, when returning from Greece with his uncle, Pierre Prevost, the painter of panoramas.
COCHET, ACGDSTlNE, a French painter, bom at St. Omer in 1788. She was a pupil of Chdry, and devoted herself chiefly to genre subjects and por- traits. She died in Paris in 1832.
COCHET, Joseph Antoine. See Coget.
COCHIN, Charles Nicolas, the elder, a French line-engraver, was born in Paris in 1688. His father, Charles Cochin, was a painter, and Charles Nicolas followed the same profession until he was twenty-two years of age, when he abandoned painting and devoted himself entirely to engraving. In 1731 he became an Academician, and on the occasion of his reception engraved the portraits of Jacques Sarrazin and Eustache Le Sueur. He then turned his attention to the fancy subjects of Watteau, Lancret, and Chardin, after whom he executed several fine works. He also assisted his son, Charles Nicolas Cochin, with the plates of the ceremonies at the marriage of the Dauphin with the Infanta of Spain in 1745. He died in Paris in 1754, having engraved about one hundred plates, among which are many vignettes for the ' Virgil ' of 1742 and other books. The undermentioned are his best works ;
La Mariee de Village ; after JT'atteau. Decoration du Bal pare ; after C. X. Cochin, fih. 1745. Decoration du Bal masque ; after the same. 1745. Decoration et Dessein du Jeu tenu par le Koy et la Reine, 1747 ; after the same. Le Jeu du Pied-de-bceuf ; after De Troy. Le Jeu de Colin-Maillard ; 'after Lancret. Fuyez Iris ; after the same. L'.Amaut sans gene ; after the saine. L.>i, Blanchisseuse : LaFontaiue ; after Chardin. L'Ecureuse: Le Gar90n Cabaretier; after the same. The Funeral of the Queen of Sardinia, 1735; after Perault and Slodtz. Louise Magdeleine Hobtemels, the wife of Cochin, likewise practised engraving. She was born in Paris in 1686, and married in 1713. Among the plates which she executed two of the best are ' La Charmante Catin ' and ' Le Chanteur de Cantiques,' which form part of the set of the ' Charges des Rues de Paris,' designed by her son. She also completed his large plate of the ' Feu d'artifice ' at Rome, which greeted the birth of the Dauphin in 1729, and often assisted him in other works. She died in Paris in 1767. Further details respectmg Cochin and his works are to be found in MM. Portalis and B^raldi's 'Graveurs du dix-huitieme siecle,' i. 492-502. E.E.G.
COCHIN, Charles Nicolas, the younger, an eminent French line-engraver, and the most cele- brated of the artists of this family, was the son and pupil of the preceding. He was born in Paris in 1715, and produced his first engraving, a 'St Joseph,' in 1727, and his first essay in etching, 'The Flight into Egypt,' in 1730. In 1735 ap- peared his plate after Pannini of the ' Feu d'ani- fice ' with which the Cardinal de Polignac cele- brated at Rome the birth of the Dauphin in 1729, and in 1736 that of the Illumination and Fireworks with which the Duke of Orleans entertained the Dauphin at Meudon in 1735. These plates, together with that of the ' Decoration de I'lUumination et Feu d'artifice ' at Versailles on the occasion of the marriage of Madame Premiere with the Infant Don Philip, revealed the talent which Cochin possessed, and secured his admission into the Academy in 1741. Besides engraving, he made many draw- ings for vignettes, among which may be noted the illustrations to the Abbe Desfontaines' translation of Virgil, published in 1742, to the works of Rousseau, 1743, and to those of Boileau, 1746. In 1745 the marriage of the Dauphin gave Cochin another opportunity for the display of his wonderful skill in the representation of vast crowds in
motion, nowhere seen to greater advantage than in his famous drawing of the ' Bal maeque ' at Versailles, which is still preserved in the Louvre.
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