page_title: Jean Edelinck
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Jean Edelinck / Life
caption_attribution_description: "Soleil descendant chez Thétis où six de ses nymphes sont occupées à le servir"
context_page_description: Jan, or Jean Edelinck, was a Flemish engraver who worked in Paris.
context_section_description: He was born in Antwerp, the brother of Gerard Edelinck. He was probably younger than Gerard, though his date of birth is unknown. He preceded his brother to Paris. Joseph Strutt, writing in the late 18th century, compared his work unfavourably to Gerard's, saying that, although he closely imitated his style, "he never equalled him, either in drawing or the execution of the mechanical part of his plates."
  He died in Paris in 1680.
caption: Thetys cave, central group, 1678 engraving of a sculpture by François Girardon and Thomas Regnaudin
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