PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS.
his father as drawing-master at King's College,
London. He died in 1868.
COTTA, Jacopo, an Italian engraver, flourished about the year 1600. His name is iiffixed to an etching representing the ' Meeting of Isaac and Rebekah,' after Storer. It is executed in a poor, tasteless style, and incorrectly drawn.
COTTARD, Pierre, according to Florent Le Comte, was an architect, who flourished in the 17th century, and etched some plates of vases and ornaments, which are executed in a bold, coarse style. We have from his hand a set of four views of Bordeaux, and a series of designs published in 1686. His prints are usually marked with the monogram
COTTRAU, FiLix, a French painter, was born in Paris in 1799, and died in the same city in 1852. He painted landscapes, portraits, and Scriptural and fancy subjects.
COUASKI, Alexander, a Polish portrait painter, was bom in Poland in 1736. He was a page in the court of the last King of Poland, but was after- wards sent to France to study under Vien. On the outbreak of the French Revolution he was painter to the Prince de Conde. He executed portraits chiefly in pastel, and among them those of the Empress Catharine II. of Russia, the Count d'Artois, the Prince de Conde, the Princess de Lamballe, and Madame Elizabeth. Marie Antoinette, however, he portrayed in distemper, and the repetitions he made of this picture are stated to have procured him a subsistence for a lengthened period. He also sketched Louis XVII. Many of his paintings are wrongly ascribed to other masters. He died at Sainte-Perine in 1829.
COUCHf;, Jacques, a French line-engraver, was bom at Abbeville in 1759. He became a pupil of Le Vasseur and of Aliamet, and was subsequently appointed engraver to the Duke of Orleans. The date of his death is not known. He owed much of his reputation to his having been the moving spirit in the publication of the work known as the 'Galerie du Palais Royal.' This was issued in part in 1786 under Couche's direction, but the Revolu- tion having stopped the work, Couch^ gome years afterwards associated himself with Laporte and Bouquet, and brought his task to a successful termination in 1808. He engraved the following eighteen plates in that collection :
The Young Martyr ; after Cagnacci. The Death of Actaon ; after Titian. The Holy Family ; after Annihale Carraeci. The Return from the Chase ; after fVoaxcerman. Hawking ; after the sa. The Judgment of Paris ; after Rubens. Bal Champ^tre ; after IVatteau. The Lady in the Balcony ; after Gerard Dou. The Concert of Cats ; after C. Brueyhel. The Eevel ; after Cerquozzi. Hercules and Wisdom ; after Paolo Veronese. Mars and Venus ; after the same. Honour ; after the same. Dislike ; after the same. A Circumcision ; after Bassano. The Martyr ; after Guido Canlaasi. St. John preaching in the 'Wildemess ; after Alhano.
COUCHfi, Francois Louis, an engraver, the son and pupil of Jacques Couchfe, was bom in Paris in 1782. He produced in an indifferent manner a number of plates representing the battles of the first Napoleon — on one of which is the date 1812. They were in some cases finished by Bovinet. At one period of his life he was keeping a shop as a publisher in the Rue Hautefeuille in Paris. His engravings are generally marked Couche Jils — sometimes simply Couche, and in one case Francis Couche. He engraved some of the plates for the ' Galerie du Palais Royal,' and for Denon's great work on Egypt. He died in Paris in 1849.
COUDER, Jean Remt Alexanpre, who was born in Paris in 1808, and studied under Picot, became famous for his pictures of still-life, fruit, and flowers, and also genre subjects. He died at Baran (Oise) in 1879.
COUDER, Louis Charles Augusts, an historical painter, was born in Paris in 1790. He studied under David and Regnault, and brought himself prominently into notice with his prize painting in 1817, representing the 'Levite of Mount Ephraim.' But the promise then ^v«ft was not redeemed by the works that immediately followed ; and even his ceiling decoration in the Gallery of Apollo in the Louvre shows that he was still restrained by classical fetters. He repaired to Munich in 1833 to study the progress of fresco painting there ; and on his return to Paris painted in the churchpo of St Gervais, Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, St. Ger- main-l'Auxerrois, and in the Madeleine. These works show care and skill, but are lacking in the most necessary element, — religious feeling. His historical works, executed at Versailles, are much more successful. There he had a better field for showing his skill in drawing and as a colourist, as well as for proving that he possessed dramatic force, and the power of rendering individual characteristics. It is on the merit of these productions that his real claim to fame is based. His Francis I. is now at Fontainebleau. Amongst other paintings may be mentioned also 'The Taking of Lerida,' and ' The Opening of the States-General in 1789.' He died in Paris in 1873.
COUDRES. See Descoudres.
COULET, Anne Philiberte, a French engraver, was bom in Paris in 1736, and was a pupil of Aliamet and of Lempereur. She engraved several landscapes and sea pieces, especially those of Joseph Vemet, which are charmingly etched and finished with the graver. She was received into the Academy in 1770, and became a member of the Academy of Vieima in 1771. The date of her death is not known.
We have by her the following engravings :
" Rendez-vous 4 la Colonne ; " after Berchem. The Departure of the Boat ; after Joseph Vemet. The Fortunate Passage ; after the same. The Fine Afternoon ; after the same. The Fishermen throwing their Nets ; after the same. The Neapolitan Fishermen ; after the same. Rural Pleasures ; after Loutherhourg. The Pleasure Party in the Country ; after tht same. Going to Market ; after Van Goyen.
COUPE, Antoine Jean Baptiste, a French line- engraver, was bom in Paris in 1784. He was a pupil of Roger. He engraved ' Prayer to the Madonna,' after Mme. Haudebourt-Lescot, and many vignettes for the works of Voltaire, Rousseau, &c. It is not known when he died.
COURBE, Wilbrode Magloire Nicolas, was a French engraver but little known, who lived at the close of the 18th century. He appears to have devoted himself chiefly to religious subjects, and was the principal engraver of the collection of portraits of the members of the National Assembly
of 1789, known as the " Collection Dejabin."
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