Pierre Audouin


Pierre Audouin was a French engraver, and pupil of Beauvarlet.
Audouin was born in Paris, where he lived and worked his whole life. He was married to Anne Laurent, the daughter of the engraver, Pierre Laurent, and he engraved altogether 18 large plates for Laurent's publication Le Musée Français, after paintings by French, Italian and Dutch masters and classical sculpture. After 1804, he often signed his work as a member of the Academy of Arts of Vienna, and in 1810 he held the title "Engraver of the Emperor's mother". He was active as a portrait engraver until the end of his life. The following are some of his works: