About Sébastien Barras
Lived 1653 – 1703 (aged 49–50). Sébastien Barras was a French painter, printmaker and copper engraver.
Sébastien Barras (1653–1703) was a French painter and engraver.
Life Barras was born at Aix-en-Provence, in 1653. He was a pupil of Boyer d'Aguilles, and studied for some time in Rome. The first edition of the Boyer d'Aguilles Collection, published in 1709, contained 27 mezzotints by Barras, which were replaced by plates engraved by Jacobus Coelemans in the second edition. He also engraved a portrait of Lazarus Maharkysus, a physician of Antwerp, after Anthony van Dyck.
He died at Aix in 1703.
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French painter (1653–1703)
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Sébastien Barras was born in 1653 in Aix-en-Provence.
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Sébastien Barras died in 1703 in Aix-en-Provence.
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Sébastien Barras was a painter, printmaker and copper engraver.
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