Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella

Claudine Bouzonnet Stella, The Assumption of the Holy Virgin. 1667. Etching, 11,2 x 7 cm. Signed: Claudia B. Stella in. Sculp. Lyon, Jamie Mulherron Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella (7 July 1636 – 1 October 1697) was a French engraver, most of whose prints were after works by Nicolas Poussin, or by her uncle Jacques Stella, from whom she received her artistic education.

Life She was born at Lyon in 1636, the daughter of Étienne Bouzonnet, a goldsmith, and his wife, Madeleine Stella. She studied art in Paris under her uncle, Jacques Stella.

In 1667 she published Les Pastorales, a set of 16 prints of rural subjects. Although these too were published as works after Jacques Stella, no originals have been traced, nor are any drawings mentioned in a surviving inventory of the workshop, leading some art historians to suggest that the designs may have been by Bouzonnet-Stella herself.

Le Volant, a plate from Les jeux et plaisirs de l'enfance, engraved by Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella after Jacques Stella. After Jacques Stella

Les Jeux et Plaisirs de l'Enfance(1657), a set 50 plates. Les Pastorales (1667), a set of 17 plates, including a title page. The Marriage of St. Catharine. Christ at the Column

After Nicolas Poussin Moses found in the Bulrushes, in two plates. Moses striking the Rock. The Crucifixion, called the Great Calvary. St. Peter and St. John curing the Lame Man. Holy Family with St John Offering an Apple to the Christ Child. Holy Family with Children Bringing Flowers.