Pierre Lepautre (engraver) explained

Pierre Lepautre or Le Pautre (1652 – 16 November 1716) was a French draughtsman, engraver and architect,^[1] especially known as an ornemaniste, a prolific designer of ornament that presages the coming Rococo style.^[2] He was the son of the designer and engraver Jean Lepautre and nephew of the architect Antoine Lepautre.^[3] His appointment in 1699 as Dessinateur in the Bâtiments du Roi, the official design department of the French monarchy, headed by Jules Hardouin-Mansart and later Robert de Cotte in the declining years of Louis XIV, was signalled by the historian of the Rococo, Fiske Kimball, as a starting point in the genesis of the new style.^[2]

Bibliography

• Dee, Elaine Evans (1982). "Lepautre, Pierre", vol. 2, pp. 687–688, in Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects, edited by Adolf K. Placzek. London: Collier Macmillan. .
• Dee, Elaine Evans; Berger, Robert W.; Moureyre, Françoise de la (1996). "Le Pautre [Le Paultre; Lepautre]", vol. 19, pp. 210–213, in The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner. London: Macmillan. . Also at Oxford Art Online (subscription required).
• Kalnein, Wend von (1995). Architecture in France in the Eighteenth Century, translated by David Britt. New Haven: Yale University Press. .
• Kimball, Fiske (1943). The Creation of the Rococo. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art. . (1980 Dover reprint as The Creation of the Rococo Decorative Style).
• Préaud, Maxime (2008). Inventaire du fonds français. Graveurs du XVIIe siècle. Tome 13. Pierre Lepautre. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France. .
• Souchal, François (1981). French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th centuries. Volume 2: The reign of Louis XIV. Illustrated Catalogue G–L. Oxford: Cassirer. .

Notes and References

1. Préaud 2008, pp. 16, 23; Souchal 1981, pp. 437–441 and the Family Tree in the end papers. Lepautre's year of birth is calculated from his stated age of 64 at the time of his death.
2. Kimball 1943, pp. 62–64, etc.
3. Souchal 1981, pp. 437–441.