Personalities Flipart, Jean Jacques

Engraver and etcher. He first learned engraving from his father, the engraver Jean-Charles Flipart, then in the workshop of Laurent Cars, where he met F. Boucher and J. B. Perronneau. Took drawing lessons from Pierre Aveline. The first serious work – the frontispiece "Public holiday organized by the city of Paris on the occasion of the marriage of the Dauphin on February 13, 1747" – was highly appreciated by his teacher L. Cars. In 1755, he received the approval of the Academy, but was never admitted to it. Since 1763, Flipart has become a favorite engraver of J.-B. Greuze in which the artist found a successful interpreter of his works. According to experts, his main feature was that he was able to change his graphic style according to the artist he was creating to get as close as possible to the originals. With equal success he managed to engrave "The Tiger Hunt" by F. Boucher, "The Bear Hunt" by Ch. van Loo, and two "Storms" by J. Vernet, engravings which, together with Greuze's engravings, secured for him an honorable place among engravers-reproductionists of the 18th century. Among his students is François-Robert Ingouf, who completed Flipart's last engraving, "The Healing of the Paralytic by Christ," based on the original by Ch. W. Dietrich. Made a large number of works in the field of book illustration, in particular for the well-known publication "Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus celebres tableaux de la Galerie Royale de Dresde" (1753-1757) (Collection of engravings from the most famous paintings of the Royal Dresden Gallery).