{{Short description|French painter and engraver}} {{for|the Belgian Olympic boxer|Antoine Masson (boxer)}} [[File:Ant. Masson, graveur ordinaire du Roi de l’Académie Royalle - INHA 2002 (adjusted).jpg|thumb|Antoine Masson, engraved by Masson after a painting by [[Pierre Mignard]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q75CAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA103|title=Le peintre-graveur français: ou Catalogue raisonné des estampes gravées par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française. Ouvrage faisant suite au Peintre-graveur de M. Bartsch|first1=A. P. F.|last1=Robert-Dumesnil|first2=Georges|last2=Duplessis|date=1 January 2019|publisher=G. Warée|via=Google Books}}</ref>]]
'''Antoine Masson''' (1636 – 30 May 1700, in [[Paris]])<ref name=Herluison>Herluison 1863.</ref> was a [[French people|French]] painter, but above all a line [[Engraving|engraver]], born at [[Loury, Loiret|Loury]], near [[Orléans]].<ref name=NIE>Gilman et al. 1905.</ref>
He learned engraving as an armorer's apprentice and had no other teaching.<ref name=NIE/> He was received (''reçu'') by the [[Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture]] in 1679 and exhibited at the [[Paris Salon]] of 1699.<ref name=Meyer>Meyer.</ref>
He engraved 68 plates,<ref>Robert-Dumesnil 1836, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Q75CAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA139 p. 139].</ref> mostly portraits, of which the most celebrated are those of [[Henri de Lorraine, count of Harcourt]], known as the "Cadet à la Perle,"<ref name=NIE/> Gaspard Charrier,<ref name=NIE/> and Olivier d'Ormesson.<ref name=Bryan>Bryan 1816.</ref> His most famous subject is "The Pilgrims of Emmaus," after [[Titian]], known as "The Tablecloth", because of the extreme care with which Masson has rendered the texture of [[linen]].<ref name=NIE/>
Among his few surviving drawings are [[pastels]] of [[Charles II, King of England]] ([[Musée Magnin]]) and [[Pierre Dupuis]] ([[Louvre]]). His work shows extraordinary facility and great talent for [[color theory|color]], but it is often marred by [[mannerism]]s, such as in his engraved portrait of [[Guy Patin]], in which the nose was formed from one spiral cut.<ref name=Meyer/>
His daughter, Madeleine Masson (1666–1713), married the engraver [[Nicolas Habert]].<ref name=Herluison/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14962293c.public|title=Habert|website=BnF Catalogue général}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&subjectid=500073869|title=ULAN Full Record Display (Getty Research)|website=www.getty.edu}}</ref> Antoine Masson died in Paris.<ref name=Herluison/>
[[Image:5177 bassenge masson.jpg|thumb|upright|''Portrait of Denis Marin'', 1672]] [[File:Jean-Jacques de Mesmes (d.1688) by Antoine Masson.jpg|thumb|upright|''Portrait of [[Jean-Jacques de Mesmes]]'', 1683]]
==Notes== {{Reflist}}
==Bibliography== * Bryan, Michael (1816). [https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008674281/page/n40 "Masson, Anthony"] in ''A Biographical and Critical Dictionary of Painters and Engravers'', 2 volumes. London: Carpenter; J. Booker; Whittingham and Arliss. Volumes [https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008674281 1] and [https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008674281 2] at [[Google Books]]. * Gilman et al., editors (1905). [https://archive.org/stream/newinternational13gilm#page/169/mode/1up "Masson, Antoine"] in ''[[New International Encyclopedia]]'', [https://archive.org/stream/newinternational13gilm#page/n6/mode/1up volume 13] at the [[Internet Archive]]. * Herluison, Henri (1863). [https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_BXgOAAAAYAAJ#page/n38/mode/1up Masson (Antoine)], pp. 38–39 in ''Artistes orléanais''. Orléans: H. Herluison. * Meyer, Véronique. [http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T055028 "Masson, Antoine"]. [[Oxford Art Online|''Grove Art Online''. ''Oxford Art Online'']]. Oxford University Press, accessed 11 January 2015, subscription required. * Robert-Dumesnil, A. P. F. (1836). [https://books.google.com/books?id=Q75CAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA98 "Antoine Masson"], vol. 2, pp. 98–139, in ''Le Peintre-graveur français''. Paris: Warée; Huzard. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Q75CAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP11 Copy] at [[Google Books]].
==External links== {{Commonscatinline}} *[http://www.artnet.com/artist/636428/antoine-masson.html Artnet entry]
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