His uncle, Nicolas Henri Tardieu, taught him the art of engraving.

He produced historical and genre works.

He is noted for two excellent engravings after Peter Paul Rubens, the Judgement of Paris and Persée et Andromache.

He did much work on the engravings for the Fables de la Fontaine after drawings by Oudry.

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