Pierre Daret

Pierre Daret de Cazeneuve, a French portrait painter and engraver, was born in Paris in 1604.

After receiving some instruction in engraving, he went to Rome to improve his skill, and spent a considerable time there.

He engraved upwards of four hundred plates, not without merit, but very deficient in taste and correctness of drawing.

He also produced a great number of portraits for a publication entitled, 'Tableaux historiques, où sont graves les illustres Prancois et Etrangers de I'un et 1' autre sexe; par Pierre Daret, Louis Boissevin, et B. Moncomet,' published in 1652 and 1656.

There was also a Pierre Daret, a painter upon vellum and in water-colours, who was living in 1664.