page_title: Laurent Cars
section_title: Portraits
hierarchical_section_title: Laurent Cars / Portraits
caption_attribution_description: copper engraving, portrait of Raymond du Puy, entitled FR. RAIMOND DUPUI PREMIER GRAND MAITRE MILITAIRE
context_page_description: Laurent Cars was a French designer and engraver.
  He was born at Lyon, the son of Jean-François Cars, who took him when quite young to Paris, where it was not long before he distinguished himself. In 1733 he was received as an Academician upon his portraits of Michel Anguier and Sébastien Bourdon. Cars, who was the master of Beauvarlet, may be considered as one of the best French engravers of the 18th century, in the kind of subjects he selected. He died in Paris in 1771. His best plates are those engraved after Lemoyne, particularly that of 'Hercules and Omphale,' and the series of illustrations after Boucher's designs to the Comedies of Molière, and after Oudry to the Fables of La Fontaine. His work is extensive; the following are his principal plates:
context_section_description: Louis XV, an allegorical portrait; after Lemoyne.
  Louis XV, an allegorical subject; after Boucher.
  Stanislaus, King of Poland; after van Loo.
  Michel Anguier, sculptor; after Revel.
  Cardinal Armand Gaston de Rohan; after Rigaud.
  Marie Leszczinska, Queen of France; after Van Loo.
  François Boucher, painter; after Cochin, fils.
  Jean Baptiste Chardin, painter; after Cochin, fils.
  Madame Chardin; after Cochin, fils.
  Mlle. Camargo, dancing; after Lancret.
  Mlle. Clairon, in the part of Medea.
caption: Raymond du Puy de Provence, portrait from circa 1725.
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