Education
Between the ages of 14 and 17, he studied painting in the studio of Pierre-Narcisse Guérin at the École des beaux-arts in Paris.
Between the ages of 14 and 17, he studied painting in the studio of Pierre-Narcisse Guérin at the École des beaux-arts in Paris.
His students included Charles Bellay, Jean-Baptiste Danguin, Adrien Didier, Alphonse and Jules François, Adolphe-Joseph Huot, Achille and Jules Jaquet, Jules Gabriel Levasseur, Aristide Louis, Louis Marckl, Isidore-Joseph Rousseaux and Charles Albert Waltner. He then devoted himself for four years to an apprenticeship in engraving under Charles Clément Balvay, nicknamed "the last of the fine burinists", who made him copy the great masters. Between 1816 and 1818, Henriquel lost out on the first prize for engraving twice, which determined him to set up his own studio and follow new styles.
Under the influence of English engravers and of Girard Audran, he tended towards "a live, witty and clear line".
He became a professor at the École des beaux-arts in 1863 and founded the Société française de la gravure in 1868. In 1871 he was made president of the Académie des beaux-arts and was still engraving aged 85.
Bertin portrait Portraits Other selected works.
In 1831 his engraving after Louis Hersent"s Abdication of Gustavus Vasa established his reputation and won him the légion d"honneur. He then worked for six years on his masterwork, an engraving of Paul Delaroche"s Hemicycle of the fine arts - this engraving won an honorary medal at the 1853 Paris Salon.
In 1849 he was elected a member of the Académie des beaux-arts
