Nicolas-Henri Tardieu, called the "Tardieu the elder", was a prominent French engraver, known for his sensitive reproductions of Antoine Watteau's paintings. He was appointed graveur du roi to King Louis XV. His second wife, Marie-Anne Horthemels, came from a family that included engravers and painters.
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![Le Couronnement du Roi, after a painting by Pierre Dulin. The engraving was made soon after 25 October 1722 from a tableau in the series Le Sacre de Louis XV.[22]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Le_Couronnement_du_Roi_by_Tardieu.jpg/500px-Le_Couronnement_du_Roi_by_Tardieu.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
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Nicolas-Henri Tardieu, called the "Tardieu the elder", was a prominent French engraver, known for his sensitive reproductions of Antoine Watteau's paintings. He was appointed graveur du roi to King Louis XV. His second wife, Marie-Anne Horthemels, came from a family that included engravers and painters. She is known as an engraver in her own right. Nicolas-Henri and Marie-Anne Tardieu had many descendants who were noted artists, most of them engravers.
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