Jean Jacques Flipart was 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...

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Biography

Flipart was born in Paris. His father was French engraver Jean Charles Flipart

Jean Charles Flipart

Jean Charles Flipart was an French engraver. He was born in Paris, his sons Charles Joseph and Jean Jacques Flipart were engravers and the former, also a painter...

, under whom he received his initial training in the engraver's art. His brother Charles Joseph Flipart

Charles Joseph Flipart

Charles Joseph Flipart was a French painter and engraver. He was born in Paris, the brother of Jean Jacques Flipart, and initially trained under his father. He visited Venice, and studied painting under Tiepolo and Amigoni, and engraving under Joseph Wagner. After staying some time at Rome he was...

, who was later noted both for his engraving and painting oeuvre, also received his initial training under the father's hand.

Flipart later trained under French engraving master Laurent Cars

Laurent Cars

Laurent Cars was a French designer and engraver, born at Lyons in 1699. He was the son of Jean-François Cars, who took him when quiteyoung to Paris, where it was not long before he distinguished himself. In 1733 he was received as an Academician upon his portraits of Michel Anguier and Sébastien...

 (1699–1771).

Engravings

Among the famous works of Flipart:

• Portrait of J. B. Greuze, A Sick Man surrounded by his Children (1767) and ;Twelfth Night ; after Greuze.
• Portrait of Jacques Dumont le Romain ; after de la Tour.
• The Holy Family ; after Giulio Romano
  Giulio Romano
  Giulio Romano was an Italian painter and architect. A pupil of Raphael, his stylistic deviations from high Renaissance classicism help define the 16th-century style known as Mannerism...
  
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• Adam and Eve ; after Charles Joseph Natoire.
• Venus presenting the Arms to Aeneas; after the same.
• A Sea-storm at Night ; after Vernet.
• A Sea-storm by Day ; after the same.
• Christ curing the Paralytic ; after Dietrich.
• A Bear-hunt ; after Carle van Loo.
• A Tiger-hunt ; after François Boucher
  François Boucher
  François Boucher was a French painter, a proponent of Rococo taste, known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories representing the arts or pastoral occupations, intended as a sort of two-dimensional furniture...
  
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• The Battle of the Centaurs and Lapiths.