Étienne Villequin

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Etienne Villequin (3 May 1619 - 15 December 1688 [1] ) was a French painter and engraver.

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Life

Few details of his life are known. He was born in Ferrières-en-Brie and received into the Academie royale de peinture et de sculpture on 21 April 1663 and painted the 1656 May for Notre Dame, Saint Paul Preaching Before Agrippa. The Louvre also holds a painting by him, Jesus Healing the Blind at Jericho. Nicolas Pitou engraved a Holy Family by Villequin, whilst Jean Boulanger engraved Villequin's Saint Roch and His Dog. He died in Paris.

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  1. Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'École française depuis l'origine des arts du dessin jusqu'à nos jours : Architectes, peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs et lithographes. T2 et T3 (Suppl.) / Ouvrage commencé par Émile Bellier de la Chavignerie; continué par Louis Auvray.

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