Pierre Lepautre (engraver)

Pierre Lepautre or Le Pautre (1652 – 16 November 1716) was a French drawing artist, engraver and architect,[1] especially known as an ornemaniste, a prolific designer of ornament that presages the coming Rococo style.

[2] He was the son of the designer and engraver Jean Lepautre and nephew of the architect Antoine Lepautre.

[3] His appointment in 1699 as Dessinateur in the Bâtiments du Roi, the official design department of the French monarchy, headed by Jules Hardouin-Mansart and later Robert de Cotte in the declining years of Louis XIV, was signalled by the historian of the Rococo, Fiske Kimball, as a starting point in the genesis of the new style.

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