, by the Younger Pierre Pierre-Imbert Drevet (22 June 1697 – 27 April 1739), called the Younger Pierre, was born and died in Paris. His father, the elder Drevet, instructed him, and he was engraving at the age of thirteen. At first he engraved after
Charles Lebrun, but he soon developed a style of his own. He was his father's constant companion. In 1723 Pierre-Imbert finished his portrait of
Bossuet after Rigaud. In 1724 the portrait of Cardinal
Dubois was engraved; in 1730, a plate of
Adrienne Lecouvreur. For his engraving of
Samuel Bernard, Rigaud himself made the drawing, an unusual event in eighteenth-century engraving. Besides his portraits, Pierre-Imbert produced many religious and historical plates, chiefly of Coypel. A
sunstroke (1726) resulted in intermittent mental disability, which continued for thirteen years until his death. He kept on engraving until the end. He was a member of the
Académie de Peinture and the king assigned him apartments in the
Louvre. Among his pupils were artists
François and
Jacques Chéreau and Simon Vallée. His principal works were:
Presentation of the Virgin, after Le Brun;
Presentation in the Temple, after L. Boullogne; portraits of the Archbishop of
Cambrai (after Joseph Vivien); and
René Pucelle, his last work, after Rigaud. ==Claude Drevet==