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Salvatore Tresca

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Salvatore Tresca (c. 1750 - 1815) was an Italian-born drawer and engraver, who worked in France.

Biography

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Born in Palermo around 1750, Tresca is mentioned by Henri Béraldi as a stipple engraver who arrived in Paris at the start of the French Revolution, residing on Rue de la Barillerie, where he also seems to be a depositary of prints.[1] In 1797, he was reported as living at 334 Rue des Mathurins.[2]

He produced prints of works by the old masters, such as Paolo Veronese and Guido Reni, and of contemporaries, such as Louis-Léopold Boilly, Nicolas Lavreince, and Louis Lafitte. For the latter, he executed a series based on the twelve months of the French Republican calendar from the years 1797-1798, the sequence completed thanks to the help of the astronomer Alexis Bouvard was put up for sale in 1806 at the artist's at 4 Rue de the Sorbonne.[3] [4]

Some of his original creations included caricatures of life under the French Directory, especially the Incroyables, such as: Les Croyables, au péron (1797),[5] La Folie du jour[6], Point de Convention[7], and Les Croyables au tripot.[1] Along with others such as Joseph-Laurent Julien, Louis Darcis [Fr], and the widow Girard (mother of the engraver Alexis-François Girard [Fr]), Tesca is one of the many engravers who, from the end of 1795, produced genre engravings several times a year, with great freedom of tone.[8]

From 1806 to 1814, under the direction of Jean-Louis Alibert, the four volume work Description des maladies de la peau (Description of Skin Diseases) was published, for which Tresca engraved 54 plates of scientific illustrations based on the sketches of G. Moreau Valvile.[9]

It is reported that his business ceased on February 21, 1815, and his collection of prints was put up for sale in Paris.[10]

French Republican calendar of Lafitte and Tresca

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    Vendémiaire
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    Brumaire
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    Frimaire
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    Nivôse
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    Pluviôse
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    Ventôse
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    Germinal
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    Floréal
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    Prairial
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    Messidor
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    Thermidor
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    Fructidor

other prints mentioned

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    Les Croyables, au Péron
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    La Folie du Jour
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    Point de Convention
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    Les Croyables au tripot

References

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  1. ^ a b Portalis, Roger; Béraldi, Henri (1882). "Tresca (Salvatore)". Les Graveurs du dix-huitième siècle [Engravers of the eighteenth century] (in French). Vol. III. Paris: Damascène Morgand et Charles Fatout. p. 600.
  2. ^ "Tresca, Salvatore (1750?-1815)". Catalogue général: Notice de personne (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. 2024-03-09.
  3. ^ "Calendrier républicain". Catalogue général: Notice bibliographique (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France.
  4. ^ Vallin, Jacques-Antoine (October 1806). Annales de la calcographie générale [Annals of general chalcography (copper engraving)] (in French). Vol. I. Paris. p. 54-55. Annuaire de l'ancien et du nouveau calendrier ...
  5. ^ An English copy credits Carle Vernet for this image. File:Parisian Dresses for 1797. Les Croyables, au Péron (BM 1948,0214.407).jpg
  6. ^ Not an original work, but this print fails to attribute Louis Léopold Boilly as the drawer. A slightly different version of the same work was also engraved by Jacques Philippe Levilly. See   Media related to Jacques Philippe Levilly at Wikimedia Commons
  7. ^ Likewise, also not original. See Point de convention [Fr]
  8. ^ Fossier, F. (2 June 1989). "Le Dépôt légal protecteur d'inventions: Estampes et gravures" [Legal Deposit protector of inventions: Prints and engravings]. 1789 Le Patrimoine libéré: 200 trésors entrés à la Bibliothèque Nationale de 1789 à 1799 [1789 The Liberated Heritage: 200 treasures entered into the National Library from 1789 to 1799] (in French). Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale. p. 64-65. ISBN 2-7177-1808-7.
  9. ^ Alibert, Jean-Louis (1806–1814). Description des maladies de la peau: observées à l'hôpital Saint-Louis, et exposition des meilleures méthodes suivies pour leur traitement [Description of skin diseases: observed at the Saint-Louis hospital, and exhibition of the best methods followed for their treatment] (in French). Paris: Caille et Ravier. 4 vols. 286pgs., 54 pl.
  10. ^ Regnault-Delalande, François-Léandre (1817). Catalogue raisonné des estampes du cabinet de M. le comte Rigal [Catalog raisonné of prints from the cabinet of Count Rigal] (in French). Paris. p. 563. 265 Catalogue de Planches gravées, Estampes et Recueils, après cessation de commerce de M. Tresca, graveur, 21 février.

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