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Poulet-Mala.s.sis mentions four others, in different sizes, all for Nicolas Martigny de Marsal, all signed, and two dated 1655 and 1660.
In 1701, he signed _S. Le Clerc invenit_ on the armorial plate inscribed ”_Matthaeus Franciscus Geoffroy_,” which was engraved by Cl. Duflos.
This design was afterwards appropriated by P. Picaut, (or Picault) for a M. Veronneau of Blois. Jombert, in his catalogue, described this plate for M. Geoffroy, on which the motto was, ”_Turris fortissima Deus_.”
S. Le Clerc is credited with having been the first to depart from the formal, but correct heraldic style, as shown on the plates of Andre Felibien, and Alexandre Petau, in order to adopt the oval s.h.i.+eld (of Italian origin) set in a foliated cartouche, the Renaissance style, in fact, which gradually developed into the Louis XIV. style.
See ”Ex-Libris Ana” (p. 31), for further details about the works of Le Clerc. The following plates are named as engraved by him:
Jean Baptiste de Jouanne, Marquis de Saumery.
Pierre Le Febvre (of Metz).
Maurice Le Tellier, archeveque de Reims.
Denis G.o.defroy de Tralage.
M. de la Reynie.
Bibliotheca Thuana.
Le Duc de Bouillon.
Etienne Baluze.
M. de Beringhen. Reproduced by M. Henri Bouchot.
LECLERE. 18th cent.
LOUISE LE DAULCEUR. 18th cent.
This clever engraver signed her name in several ways.
Le D.
Louise Le D. _sculp._
Madame Le D.
Louise Le Daulceur.
Daul _sculp._
L. Daul _sculp._
Louise Daul:
She herself had two book-plates, one inscribed M^{de} Le Daulceur, is signed ”_Ed.
Bouchardon in. del. Louise Le D. sculp._” the other, a smaller one, is not signed.
Madlle. Le Daulceur studied under Bouchardon, and in examining the plates signed by her, it will be seen that she engraved after designs furnished by Bouchardon, Pierre, H. Gravelot, C.
Eisen, and Durand, whilst Poulet-Mala.s.sis speaks of her as ”une femme du monde, amateur de talent, gracieux intermediaire entre les artistes ses maitres et ses amis.”
Her talents appear to have been princ.i.p.ally devoted to ill.u.s.trating books of poems for her friends, and it is supposed that the ex-libris she engraved were probably works of love. The following is a list of them.
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