page_title: Pierre-François Basan
hierarchical_section_title: Pierre-François Basan
caption_attribution_description: French; Bust; Sculpture
context_page_description: Pierre-François Basan was a French engraver.
  Basan was born in Paris. He was a pupil of Etienne Fessard and Jean Daullé. He was principally occupied as a printseller, and published a 'Dictionnaire des Graveurs' in 1767.
  He engraved the following plates:
  The Gothic Songster; after A. Both.
  An Ecce Homo; after Caravaggio.
  Christ breaking the Bread; after Carlo Dolci.
  St. Maurice'; after Luca Giordano.
  Bacchus and Ariadne; after Jordaens.
  Christophe Lemenu de St. Philibert; after Le Fèvre.
  Louis XV, with Diogenes; after Le Moine.
  The Female Gardener; after Frans Mieris.
  The Card-players; after Teniers.
  An Incantation; after the same.
  Carle Vanloo.
  Armand Gaston de Eohan, called the Cardinal de Soubise.
  He also executed several copies after the scarce etchings of Rembrandt.
context_section_description: Pierre-François Basan (23 October 1723 – 12 February 1797) was a French engraver.
  Basan was born in Paris.  He was a pupil of Etienne Fessard and Jean Daullé. He was principally occupied as a printseller, and published a 'Dictionnaire des Graveurs' in 1767.
  He engraved the following plates:
  The Gothic Songster; after A. Both.
  An Ecce Homo; after Caravaggio.
  Christ breaking the Bread; after Carlo Dolci.
  St. Maurice'; after Luca Giordano.
  Bacchus and Ariadne; after Jordaens.
  Christophe Lemenu de St. Philibert; after Le Fèvre.
  Louis XV, with Diogenes; after Le Moine.
  The Female Gardener; after Frans Mieris.
  The Card-players; after Teniers.
  An Incantation; after the same.
  Carle Vanloo.
  Armand Gaston de Eohan, called the Cardinal de Soubise.
  He also executed several copies after the scarce etchings of Rembrandt.
caption: Bust of Pierre-François Basan, by Augustin Pajou, 1773 (20th century copy)
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