Pierre, the younger, an eminent French engraver, was born in 1697, at Paris, where his father had acquired considerable reputation in the same department of art. He was a member of the royal academy of painting and sculpture, and died at Paris in 1739, at the age of forty-two. In his portraits, which are highly elaborate, he particularly excelled in representing lace, silk, fur, velvet, and other ornamental parts of dress. Of his historical prints—which, in point of neatness and exquisite workmanship, are scarcely to be equalled—the most esteemed is the Presentation of Christ in the Temple; a very large plate, lengthwise, from Luigi de Bologna. This print is very valuable, but the first impressions of it are rarely to be met with. Among his portraits, the best are those of Bossuet and of Samuel Bernard. The first impressions of the latter are before the words Conseiller d'Etat were inserted upon the plate.