Recueil de portrait
Publisher: G-L Chrétien
Published: 1786
Place of publication: [Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: Portrait prints; Portraits; Biography
Notes: Binder's title (spine).

Collected engraved ports. of contemporaries by G.-L. Chrétien after drawings by E. Quenedey or J. Fouquet principally, and developed through Chrétien's "physionotrace" device. The resulting engravings are oval or round ca. 5 cm. in diameter and with few exceptions are in profile. Five are presented in three-quarter views. Six are colored, one is printed in bistre. Some are mounted on the leaves. A few are variants of the same port.

BN. Inventaire:18e s., IV, p. 494-586

Hennequin, R. "Photographe" de l'époque de la revolution et empire

Hennequin, R. Avant les photographies ... Cat. des 1800 premiers ports.  [Not seen]