Isaac Briot, a French engraver

Engraving

Engraving is the practice of incising a design on to a hard, usually flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing...

 and draughtsman

Draughtsman

A draughtsman or draftsman , is a person skilled in drawing, either:*drawing for artistic purposes, or*technical drawing for practical purposes such as architecture or engineering...

, was born in 1585, and died in Paris in 1670. His plates are rather neatly executed, in the style
of Wierix

Wierix family

The Wierix family were a Flemish dynasty of printmakers in engraving in the 16th and early 17th centuries, active in Antwerp and Brussels....

, and mostly from his own compositions, but the drawing is defective. The following may be noticed:

Portraits

• Cardinal de Richelieu.
• Cardinal d'Amboise
  Georges d'Amboise
  Georges d'Amboise was a French Roman Catholic cardinal and minister of state. He belonged to the house of Amboise, a noble family possessed of considerable influence: of his nine brothers, four were bishops. His father, Pierre d'Amboise, seigneur de Chaumont, was chamberlain to Charles VII and...
  
  , archbishop of Rouen. (pictured)
• Gaspard, Comte de Coligny
  Gaspard de Coligny
  Gaspard de Coligny , Seigneur de Châtillon, was a French nobleman and admiral, best remembered as a disciplined Huguenot leader in the French Wars of Religion.-Ancestry:...
  
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• The poet François Malherbe
  François de Malherbe
  François de Malherbe was a French poet, critic, and translator.-Life:Born in Le-Locheur , his family was of some position, though it seems not to have been able to establish to the satisfaction of heralds the claims which it made to nobility older than the 16th century.He was the eldest son of...
  
  , in 4to
  Quarto
  Quarto could refer to:* Quarto, a size or format of a book in which four leaves of a book are created from a standard size sheet of paper* For specific information about quarto texts of William Shakespeare's works, see:...
  
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• The poet Marini, in 4to.

Other subjects

• The Alliance of France with Spain.
• St. John the Baptist in the Desert.
• St. Peter weeping.
• L'Oraison dominicale expliquee par des emblèmes. Two small plates.
• The Virtues. Seven small plates.
• The Sibyls. A set of small circular plates.
• Ovid's 'Metamorphoses.' A set of plates published 1637.

Marie Briot, daughter of Isaac, with her father, executed plates after Paul de La Barre, J. B. Coriolan, St. Igny, and others.