Edme Jeaurat

His father took young Edme to Paris and apprenticed him to Bernard Picart.

After working there many years, Jeaurat moved to the Netherlands, where he made his living producing engravings of the great paintings in Amsterdam and The Hague, while studying Dutch painting.

Jeaurat was also employed by Pierre Crozat to engrave pictures for his famous collection.

He had two sons, Nicolas Henri, a painter of still lifes, and Edme-Sébastien, who eventually devoted himself to science and became an astronomer.

There is a fine collection of Edme Jeaurat's engravings in the British Museum, and they can also be studied in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.