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Véronique Meyer, « Claudine Brunand, femme et graveuse », Nouvelles de l'estampe, ID : 10.4000/estampe.1437
What do we know about the Lyon engraver Claudine Brunand (1630-1674)? Roger-Armand Weigert drew up an inventory in 1953 of the items held by the Prints Department of the Bibliothèque Nationale. But a new resarch conducted using the holdings of the Lyon municipal library, the Mazarine library and the Arsenal library shows that her production is more varied and more considerable than we thought: portraits, figures of saints, and coats of arms play the largest role. In addition to engraving, she practised illumination and heraldic painting. The pre-feminist texts she wrote and published give an idea of her personality, and the poems she received testify to her fame, which is hardly justified by the rather mediocre quality of her work.