AUDRAN, CLAUDE, a French engraver, was the son of Louis Audran, an officer belonging to the wolf-hunters in the reign of Henry IV. of France. He was born at Paris in 1592, and died at Lyons in 1677. Though he never acquired much reputation by his own works, he was the father of three great artists, Germain, Claude, and Girard; the last of whom has immortalized the name of the family.