Dorigny visited
Italy, where he remained for twenty-eight years. His first plates were executed with the
point. He is better known, however, for his technique unifying the point and the
graver, characteristic of his later productions. He took for his model the admirable works of
Gérard Audran. Although he may not have equalled that celebrated artist, either in the style of his drawing, or in the picturesque effect of his light and shade, his prints will always be esteemed both for their merit as engravings and for the importance of the subjects which he chose. In 1711, he was invited to England by
Queen Anne to engrave the
Cartoons of Raphael at
Hampton Court, which he finished in 1719, and in the following year he was
knighted by
King George I. While he was in England he painted some portraits of the nobility, but with no great success. He returned to France in 1725, and was received into the
Academy in the same year. He exhibited some pictures of sacred subjects at the
Salon from 1739 to 1743, and died in Paris in 1746. ==Works==