Jean-François Cars

Baptized on the next day, Jean-François had as his godfather another engraver, François Demasso of Lyon, who also worked as a merchant of prints and figurines.

[2] However, his earliest prints by hand dated only from 1693, when, in the wake of his father, he provided the plates for the illustrations of the works being published in Lyon.

They had seven children, including Laurent Cars and a daughter, Agatha, who married the King's printer Gabriel-François Quillau.

[1] He had several presses and employed several Lyonnaise engravers, including Claude Séraucourt and especially his own brother, François Cars fils.

[2] In Paris, Jean-François had had his shop at rue de la Savonnerie since 1702 yet his youngest son was born in Lyon in December 1704.

[2] Jean-François kept a workshop where many apprentices, especially François Boucher and Jean-Baptiste Perronneau[2] learned and worked; in 1730, it had six presses for making the intaglios.