Jean-Louis Delignon (1755 - 1820)

Jean-Louis Delignon

Jean-Louis Delignon is a French engraver, specializing in drypoint and burin. Delignon was a student of Nicolas de Launay. His first known work was on the prints of the Cabinet de M. Poulain directed by Pierre-Étienne Moitte and published by Pierre-François Basan. He contributed to other engraved suites, such as that of the Monument of the physical and moral costume of the end of the Eighteenth century (1783-1789) drawn and directed by Moreau the Younger, that of the Figures of the History of France (1785) directed by the same, then the Galerie du Palais-Royal (1786-1808) edited by Jacques Bouillard and Jacques Couché, or the French Museum (1803-1809), directed by the engraver Pierre-François Laurent (1739- 1809).