The De Poilly family : a family of artists takes pride of place at the Musée Boucher-de-Perthes
The Musée Boucher-de-Perthes (Boucher-de-Perthes Museum) has dedicated an exhibition to a family of artists, the De Poilly family. The museum has 494 engravings, 4 drawings and 3 paintings by the De Poilly family, which makes it the most important collection of works by these artists who shone on the Paris art scene from 1655 until the end of the 18th century. A family from Abbeville, the De Poilly were goldsmiths, engravers and print merchants, and won fame as the unrivalled masters of official engraving during the 17th and 18th centuries.
