French Book-plates Part 29

CHEVALIER _sculp._ 18th cent.

M. L'Abbe Desmarestz. Armorial.

Ecclesiastical.

CHEVRIER, L. Modern.

A nameless etched plate, dated 1875, representing a child beneath a pile of old books.

CHINON, B. 18th cent.

P. P. CHOFFARD _fecit._

On the plates of De Cursay, de Landry, etc., 1756.

De Cursay-Thoma.s.seau, 1756.

Ex-libris de Buissy, 1759.

Franc. Jos. Ant. h.e.l.l (of Alsace), 1773.

Ex-libris Souchay, Eq^{is}. Lugduni "C. Monet _del._ P. P.

Choffard, _sculp._ 1776." This handsome plate is reproduced in "Ex-Libris Ana."

Jean Armand Tronchin, 1779.

Th.e.l.lusson, 1782. Poulet-Mala.s.sis speaks of Th.e.l.lusson as a Prussian Baron, whereas he was a descendant of a French Protestant family, and in 1806 was created Baron Rendlesham in the peerage of Ireland.

Andreas de Salis, Curia Rhaetorum.

Pinsot d'Armand.

M. Henri Bouchot reproduces a lady's armorial plate, nameless, engraved by Choffard, after a design by Moreau le Jeune.

CHOLLET. 18th cent.

CHOUBARD _sculp._

H. CHRISTOPHE _Lith. Nancy._

Ex Libris A. Benoit, Berthelmingen, 1894.

Ex Libris Francisci de Chanteau.

L. CHRISTOPHE _Nancy_, 1852.

M. Ch. de Beauminy.

Armorial; literary.

CLOUZIER, A. 18th cent.

COCHIN, CHARLES NICOLAS.

Known as _Cochin fils._ 18th cent.

He signed a nameless plate _Cochin inv._ 1750. (De Lafosse, sc.)

Also a nameless armorial plate for the Abbe Leblanc.

_C. Cochin filius inv._ (C. O.

Galimard, _sculp._), and another for Poisson de Marigny, dated 1752.

He also designed an armorial plate for the Marquise de Pompadour. (See Poulet-Mala.s.sis, p. 60.)

C. N. C. _d._ (_Cochin fils._)

Ex Libris Le Va.s.sor de la Touche. (See J. Ingram.)

L. P. C. _inv._

On the plate of L. P. Couraud, also signed _Henry-Andre del. et sc._

Mons. Couraud also designed an armorial plate for himself.

COCHON, J. Modern.

Ex Libris M. Descoutures.

COLE. 18th cent.

J. COLIN. 1685.

COLINET _fecit._ 18th cent.

M. Thierry de Villedavray.

Armorial.

COLLARD. 18th cent.

COLLIN, DOMINIQUE (known as Collin pere). 18th cent.

This famous engraver was born at Mirecourt, in Lorraine, in 1725. He first studied engraving under a goldsmith in Metz, and afterwards under Jean Striedbeck of Strasburg.

In 1752 Collin married and settled in Nancy, where he soon acquired a reputation, and was named engraver to the town, and also to the King of Poland, Stanislas, Duc de Lorraine et de Bar.

He died in Nancy, December 21st, 1781. He produced more than 300 engravings, on many of which he signed himself "graveur du feu roi de Pologne."

A catalogue of his works was given by Mons. le Conseiller Beaupre in "Les Memoires de la Societe d'Archeologie Lorraine," and a supplemental list, drawn up by Mons. A. Benoit, with ill.u.s.trations, appeared in the "Archives de la Societe Francaise," April, 1895.

His son, Yves Dominique Collin, also worked on book-plates, and, judging by the few known examples of his work, would probably have surpa.s.sed his father, but, unfortunately, his career was brief. He was born in Nancy, in February, 1753, and died in the same city on April 26th, 1792. He signed his plates _Y. D. Collin, fils._

The following is a list of the known book-plates of Dominique Collin; his mode of signature varied, and he spelt his name Collin or Colin indifferently.