Pierre Audouin (1768–1822) was a French engraver, and pupil of Beauvarlet.

Henri-François Riesener by Pierre Audouin, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1800
"La Marchande de Volaille," painting by Gabriel Metsu; engraved by Pierre Audouin from the drawing by Felice Giani (image 31 x 26.8 cm); published in Le Musée Royal, second series of Le Musée français, 1821.

Audouin was born in Paris, where he lived and worked his whole life. He was married to Anne Laurent, the daughter of the engraver, Pierre Laurent, and he engraved altogether 18 large plates for Laurent's publication Le Musée Français, after paintings by French, Italian and Dutch masters and classical sculpture. After 1804, he often signed his work as a member of the Academy of Arts of Vienna ("l'Académie des arts de Vienne"), [1] and in 1810 he held the title "Engraver of the Emperor's mother" (graveur de madame Mère, i.e. Letizia Bonaparte). He was active as a portrait engraver until the end of his life.[2] The following are some of his works:

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  1. ^ E.g. G.D. McKee, "The Musée français and the Musée royal : a history of the publication ... with a catalogue of plates ...," M.A. thesis, University of Chicago, 1981, Appendix 6 (Catalogue), nos. 58 and 59.
  2. ^ R. Portalis and H. Béraldi, Les Graveurs du dix-huitième siècle, t. 1 (1880), pp. 41-43.
  •   This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainBryan, Michael (1886). "Audouin, Pierre". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.