Jean François Janinet (1752–1814)

• Was a French engraver, balloonist, and printmaker.
• He was probably apprenticed to his father François Janinet, a gem-engraver from Burgundy.
• Between c. 1770 and c. 1772 he worked in the studio of Louis-Marin Bonnet.
• In 1772 he published a small oval-print from several plates, the meeting (inventaire de fonds français , no. 2), after Clément-Pierre Marillier.
• His prints were rarely dated, but they can be classified according to his successive paris addresses after 1780 (before then he frequently moved house).
• He also worked on mythological scenes such as the toilet of venus; small-scale portraits such as those of the milliner rose bertin and of Queen Marie-Antoinette; portraits of actresses on stage.
• Janinet also produced a historical series from his own drawings, consisting of 52 plates in the wash manner: principaux événements depuis l’ouverture des etats généraux.
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