Étienne Ficquet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Étienne Ficquet

engraver

Date of Birth: 13-Sep-1719

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 11-Dec-1794

Profession: engraver

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Étienne Ficquet (13 September 1719 – 11 December 1794) was a French engraver. Ficquet was born in Paris in 1719, and was instructed by G.
F.
Schmidt and Le Bas.
He acquired great reputation by a set of small portraits which he engraved of distinguished literary characters of France.
They are executed with extraordinary neatness and delicacy, and are very correctly drawn.
One of his best plates is a portrait of Madame de Maintenon, after Mignard, now become very scarce.
He engraved also several of the plates for Descamps' Vie des Peintres Flamands et Hollandais, of which those of Rubens and Van Dyck are very highly finished.
He died in Paris in 1794.