According to Houbraken he was a pupil of Raymond Lafage who later followed his style of making drawings and prints.
He was able to attract a crowd in a tavern with his ingenious method of drawing a complicated version of the Pharaoh entering the Red Sea in two hours, from what appeared to be random scratches on a piece of paper.
He copied this trick from Lafage, and Houbraken witnessed it himself in a tavern in London in 1709.
[2] He drew many book illustrations and was the teacher of Jacques André Joseph Camellot Aved.
[2] The engraver Louis Peter Boitard was his son.