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French engraving — Pauquet, Polidor

 

Polidor Pauquet (Polydore Jean-Charles Pauquet (1800 - 1879), French illustrator and printmaker, one of the Poke brothers. They were students of their father, Jean-Louis Charles Poke. In 1812 he entered the Higher National School of Fine Arts in Paris. Their work was exhibited at the Paris Salon in the 1820s and 1830s.