부산대학교 도서관

(b c. 1725; d c. 1804). French engraver and draughtsman. He was related to the engravers Charles Dupuis (1685–1742) and Nicolas-Gabriel Dupuis. In 1756 he was working as Graveur du Cabinet du Roi, under the auspices of the Menus Plaisirs du Roi. For this he engraved after the drawings of members of the Slodtz family (e.g. May Ball at Versailles during the Carnival of 1763). After Charles-Michel-Ange Challe he engraved the catafalque of the Dauphin (1766), that of Elisabeth Farnese (1766) and that of the Dauphine Marie-Josèphe (1767). At the same time Martinet produced illustrations for plays or comic operas by such contemporaries as Marmontel, Voltaire and Philidor; some of these he engraved himself, while others were drawn by him but engraved by his sister Thérèse Martinet (b c. 1731). He also engraved some portraits, such as that of the Maréchal de Villars after Antoine Coypel, and landscapes and genre scenes (e.g. the ...