Le Blon, Jakob Christof

Le Blon, Jakob Christof

▪ painter and engraver
French  Jacques-Christophe Le Blond,  Jakob Christof also spelled  Jacob Christoph 
baptized May 23, 1667, Frankfurt am Main
died May 15, 1741, Paris

      German-born painter and engraver who was the first to make use of several metal plates (each for an individual colour) for making prints with continuous gradations of colour. His colour theory formed the foundation for modern colour printing.

      Le Blon lived in Rome, Amsterdam, London, and Paris. In London he was granted a patent for his discovery and formed a company that went bankrupt. He then went to Paris, where he spent the rest of his life. About 50 of his prints are known, many of them reproductions of works of the Old Masters, and, although they were published in large editions, they are now extremely rare.

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