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Last Name Chedel

Given Name Pierre Quentin

alt. Names P. Q. C. ;

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Year born 1705 in Châlons-en-Champagne, Marne, France

Year died 1763

Place of death Châlons-en-Champagne, Marne, France

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Education in Paris pupil of François Lemoine & Laurent Cars

Country of Activity France

Worked for Antoine Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville (1680-1765): Histoire naturelle éclaircie dans une de ses parties principales, l'orcyctologie (Paris 1755) ; Joseph Addison: title page of the Translation of Miltons Paradis perdu ; Jean de Julienne ; Abbé Prévost: Histoire gén. des Voyages ;

Patronage

Collaborators François Boucher ; draughtsman -> Hyacinthe Collin de Vermont

Techniques zoological engraving, etching & drawing

Sample(s) https://pictures.abebooks.com/inventory/22409806395_3.jpg ; https://pictures.abebooks.com/inventory/22383062513.jpg

Archival sources https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/record?query=chedel&start=1

Published sources AKL 18 1998: 371 ; ThB 6 1912: 447 ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ; A. Bourgeois: Pierre Chedel et son oeuvre (1895) ; Hünniger 2021: 24

other P.Q.C. was active in Paris.

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