Henriquel has worked not only with a chisel, but also in very different genres: lithography, etching, aquatint. His second originality is to have engraved a lot according to his contemporaries: Paul Delaroche, Ary Scheffer, Dominique Ingres, Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury, Antoine-Jean Gros, François Gérard...
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Henriquel has worked not only with a chisel, but also in very different genres: lithography, etching, aquatint. His second originality is to have engraved a lot according to his contemporaries: Paul Delaroche, Ary Scheffer, Dominique Ingres, Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury, Antoine-Jean Gros, François Gérard.
It was only towards the end of his life that he attacked the elders such as Veronese, Le Corrège or Le Caravage.
As an illustrator, he has engraved vignettes after Alexandre-Joseph Desenne and Achille Devéria for Voltaire's Les Fables de La Fontaine and La Pucelle d'Orléans. But it is to his portraits that he owes his fame above all
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