A Wonderful Set Of Eight Plates from Charles Paillasson''s L''Art d''Ecrire all individually framed c1763 with Frenchman Aubin engraver.
Charles Paillasson''s celebrated handwriting manual *L''Art d''Ecrire* was originally published in 1763 as part of Diderot and D''Alembert''s *Encyclopédie*, with plates engraved in 1760 .
Charles Paillasson was born in 1718, son of the master writer Jean-Jacques Paillasson, who died in 1754 . He was a student of Louis Rossignol , and taught his art in a boarding school in Clamart from 1738 . He was made a master of the Community of Master Writers onNovember 18, 1756. In 1754 he lived in Paris on rue des Fossés-Saint-Germain-l''Auxerrois.
Anxious to enhance the prestige of calligraphy in France, he was part of several Parisian academies supporting this cause and was among those who offered, in 1763 and 1767 , gifts in calligraphy to Louis XV . In 1767, he was said to be a sworn writer expert and a former professor of the Royal Academy of Wri
...ting . In 1776 he was already a writer in the king''s cabinet, and in 1780 he was appointed First Secretary of the King ''s Cabinet . In 1779, he was a founding member of the Academic Writing Office and was still a member in 1789 , the year of his death.
Aubin was active 1740/70 and was a printmaker and lettering engraver
Provenance: The Property of a Country House, England from family Flanders, Belgium
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Dateline of this antique is 18th Century
Height is 60cm (23.6inches)Width is 47cm (18.5inches)Depth is 2cm (0.8inches)
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