page_title: Gérard Edelinck
section_title: Work
hierarchical_section_title: Gérard Edelinck / Work
caption_attribution_description: English: Alexander and Hephaistion visit the family of Darius in their tent after the battle of Issus. Engraved in 1852 from a painting dated 1661 Deutsch: Alexander und Stateira sowie Hephaistion und und Drypetis während der Massenhochzeit von Susa; Darstellung aus dem späten 19. Jahrhundert
context_page_description: Gérard Edelinck was a copper-plate engraver and print publisher of Flemish origin, who worked in Paris from 1666 and became a naturalized French citizen in 1675.
context_section_description: The work of this great engraver constitutes an epoch in the art. His prints number more than four hundred. Edelinck stands above and apart from his predecessors and contemporaries in that he excelled, not in some one respect, but in all respects, that while one engraver attained excellence in correct form, and another in rendering light and shade, and others in giving color to their prints and the texture of surfaces, he, as supreme master of the burin, possessed and displayed all these separate qualities, in so complete a harmony that the eye is not attracted by any one of them in particular, but rests in the satisfying whole.
  Edelinck was especially good as an engraver of portraits, and executed prints of many of the most eminent persons of his time. Among these are those of Le Brun, Rigaud, Champaigne, Nanteuil, La Fontaine, Colbert, John Dryden, Descartes, Jean-Baptiste Lully, etc. He died at Paris in 1707. His younger brother Jean, and his son Nicholas, were also engravers.
caption: Alexander and Hephaistion visit the family of Darius in their tent after the battle of Issus, engraved by Gérard Edelinck from a painting by Charles le Brun
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