The Quiet Maestro of Rococo Illustration In the glittering, often overwhelming landscape of eighteenth-century French art, where flamboyant masters like Jean-Baptiste Oudry and Charles André van Lont commanded the grandest stages, there existed a more subtle, meticulous form of brilliance. Nicolas-Gabriel Dupuis (1698–1771) was a master of this delicate realm. While he may not have sought the monumental scale of oil canvases, his influence permeated the very fabric of Rococo culture through the exquisite precision of his engravings and etchings. Known to history by the moniker Dupuis le Jeun…