Vidal, Geraud or Gerard

    (9/6/1742 Toulouse- 1801 Paris) (France)

   Reproduction engraver, best known for prints after the works of Fragonard, Lavreince, and Monnet. He trained under J.M. Vien. Known for galante and mythological scenes with a sexual tone.

   Reproductions: Happy moment; print; Bursendorff, 1960a: p. 137 . [Illustration to Voltaire]; copperplate; Wagner, 1986: p. 85 [B]. L'heureux moment; Wagner, 1986: p. 66 [B]. Jupiter et Anthiope (after Monnet); Wagner, 1986: p. 86 [B]. Jupiter et Io (after Monnet); Wagner, 1986: p. 87 [B].

   [b]Source: Benezit, vol. 14: p. 279; ThB xxxiv 1940: p. 332.