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Charles Dominique-Joseph Eisen
Nationality: 
french
Gender: 
Male
Birth Date: 
1720
Birth Place: 
Valenciennes
Death Date: 
1778
Death Place: 
Brussels
son and pupil of his father , the Belgian artist François Eisen. Painter, draftsman, engraver, illustrator. Known particularly for hi illustrations for the Fables of Fontaine and Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Allegorical Composition
Allegorical Composition
Cadmus and Hermione metamorphosed into serpents, fifty-ninth plate in the book The Copper Plate Magazine (London: G. Kearsly, 1778)
Cerberus, chained by Hercules, infects the earth with his foam, sixty-first plate in the book The Copper Plate Magazine (London: G. Kearsly, 1778)
Hercules overcomes Antaeus, who opposes his passage into Africa, sixty-seventh plate in the book The Copper Plate Magazine (London: G. Kearsly, 1778)
King Louis XV of France and the Marquise de Pompadour
Myrrha, retired into the country of the Sabeans, is deliver'd of Adonis, and afterwards metamorphosed into a tree , seventy-fourth plate in the book The Copper Plate Magazine (London: G. Kearsly, 1778)
Orpheus, by his voice and lyre, attracks [sic] the attention of the animals, rocks, and trees, sixty-second plate in the book The Copper Plate Magazine (London: G. Kearsly, 1778)
Perdix, the nephew of Daedalus, transformed into a partridge , fifty-third plate in the book The Copper Plate Magazine (London: G. Kearsly, 1778)
Perseus delivering Andromeda, seventy-seventh plate in the book The Copper Plate Magazine (London: G. Kearsly, 1778)
Rectangular Snuff box
Rectangular Snuff box
Tereus, after having cut out the tongue of Philomela, confines her in an old castle, fifty-seventh plate in the book The Copper Plate Magazine (London: G. Kearsly, 1778)
The transformation of Arachne into a spider, sixty-sixth plate in the book The Copper Plate Magazine (London: G. Kearsly, 1778)
The Transformation of Picus into a Woodpecker, forty-ninth plate in the book The Copper Plate Magazine (London: G. Kearsly, 1778)