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Last Name Basan

Given Name Pierre-François

alt. Names P.-F. B. ; Basan et Poignant ;

Marriage Marie Drouet

Children 3

Year born 1723

Year died 1797

Place of death Paris

Father's occupation wine merchant

Relatives Antoine-Simon-Ferdinand Basan (son) ; Henry-Louis Basan (son) ;

Education taught by Etienne Fessard and Jean Daullé

Country of Activity France

Worked for George Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788) ;

Patronage

Collaborators Noël Le Mire ;

Techniques animal and natural engraving and etching

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Archival sources

Published sources Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ; Dictionnaire des graveurs anciens et modernes depuis l'origine de la gravure (1767) ;

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