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aquatint prints are
called physionotraces. In 1783–1784, the
Frenchman Gilles-Louis Chrétien
invented the "
physionotrace" to aid in the
production of...
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musician and
composer Gilles-Louis Chrétien (1754–1811),
inventor of the
physionotrace Henri Chrétien (1879–1956),
French astronomer and
inventor Jean Chrétien...
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every form and art; a painting, a drawing, a bust, a
relief and six
physionotraces on the tables. The
eyewitness Helen Maria Williams attributed all the...
- America,
silhouettes were
highly po****r from
about 1790 to 1840. The
physionotrace apparatus invented by
Frenchman Gilles-Louis Chrétien in 1783-84 facilitated...
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began his
career as a
restorer of pictures. Upon the
invention of the
physionotrace by Gilles-Louis Chrétien they
cooperated for
making portraits. In 1789...
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portrait miniature and its
cheaper versions, the
silhouette and the
physionotrace.
However its
technologies were limited; a
single copy was made in the...
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March 4 – Gilles-Louis Chrétien,
French musician and
creator of the
physionotrace used for
portraits (born 1754)
April 28 –
Johann Baptist Drechsler,...
- Chrétien was born at Versailles. In 1787 he
invented a
machine called a "
physionotrace", with
which he took
portraits in
profile from life. He
worked initially...
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Pierre Gaveaux Portrait by Edmé
Quenedey after a
physionotrace (1821)....
- A
physionotrace by Gilles-Louis Chrétien of
Quint Ondaatje between 1793-1798...
