- NamnNicolas Delaunay
- Verksamhet/Titelgrafiker, tecknare, gravör
- Könman
- Namnvarianterstavningsvariant: Nicolas de Launay
namnvariant: Nicolas (l´aîné) Delaunay
namnvariant: Nicolas de
- Nationalitet/ Levnadsårfransk, Född 1739-09-20, Död 1792-03-22
- PlatserFödelseort: Paris, Frankrike
Dödsort: Paris, Frankrike
BiografiTrained with Louis-Simon Lempereur. His oeuvre includes portraits and also landscapes, for example two engravings of Roman ruins (1768; see Hébert and Sjöberg, nos 35 and 36) after Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, made for Jean-Georges Wille. As a book illustrator, de Launay contributed to some of the most famous books of the period, including the Métamorphoses d’Ovide (Paris, 1767–71; hs 25–34); but he was best known for the amorous scenes that he engraved after such artists as Pierre-Antoine Baudouin, Niclas Lafrensen, Sigmund Freudenberger, Jean-Baptiste Le Prince and, most particularly, Jean-Honoré Fragonard.
Källa: Grove Art