PETER, the Younger, an eminent French engraver, was a member of the royal academy of painting and sculpture; and died at Paris in 1739, at 42 years of age. His portraits are neat and elegant, but laboured to the last degree. He particularly excels in representing lace, silk, fur, velvet, and other ornamental parts of dress. His father was excellent in the same art, and had instructed, but was surpassed by the son. The younger Drevet did not confine himself to portraits. We have several historical prints by him, which in point of neatness and exquisite workmanship are scarcely to be equalled. His most esteemed and best historical print is very valuable; but the first impressions of it are rarely to be met with: it is, The Presentation of Christ in the Temple; a very large plate, lengthwise, from Louis de Bologna. The following deserve also to be particularized: The Meeting of Abraham's Servant with Rebecca at the Well; a large upright plate, from Ant. Coypel: and Abraham, with his son Isaac on the Altar, the fame, from the same, date 1707; the first impressions of which are before the work upon the right thigh of Isaac was altered, the curved lines from the button almost down to the knee being in those impressions arched downwards, but in posterior ones arched upwards. Among his portraits, the two following are justly held in the highest estimation: M. Buffuet, bishop of Meaux; a whole length figure standing, a middling sized upright plate, from Rigaud: and Samuel Bernard; a whole length figure sitting in a chair, a large upright plate. The first impressions of the last are, before the words Conseiller d'Etat were inserted upon the plate.