François Poilly, or François de Poilly, (1623 –1693) was a French engraver. He was born in Abbeville, the son of a goldsmith who gave him his first drawing...

French-suited tarot decks were made by the de Poilly family of engravers, beginning with a Minchiate deck by François de Poilly in the late 1650s. Aside from these...

Geography decks contained maps of the known world. French engraver François de Poilly (1623–93) produced a French-suited Minchiate deck in the late 1650s...

and became an engraver like his father, his uncle François de Poilly, and several others in the Poilly family. Originally from Abbeville, Nicolas' father...

congregations seculieres de l'un & l'autre sexe, qui ont esté establies jusque'à present", Engravings by François de Poilly, Ed. Nicolas Gosselin, Paris...

The story of "Poil de carotte" is that of an unloved, redheaded child, the victim of an evil family. François Lepic, nicknamed Poil de carotte, grows...

known by whom he was instructed, but his style resembles that of François de Poilly. He left a great number of plates, executed principally with the burin...

to have attached himself at first to an imitation of the style of François de Poilly. An engraving, dated 1669-93, an impression of which is at the British...

improve himself further he subsequently studied under François de Poilly, Robert Nanteuil, and Philippe de Champaigne. These masters likewise had soon done...

entirely with the graver, and appears to have imitated the style of François de Poilly. He engraved plates from his own designs and others from Rutilio Manetti...