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{{Short description|French calligrapher, engraver, artist}}

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{{bio-stub}}Elisabeth Senault was a French artist, [[Calligraphy|calligrapher]], and [[Engraving|engraver]], active in the late 17th century <ref>{{Cite web |title=Online Archive |url=https://oa.letterformarchive.org/ |access-date=2024-03-10 |website=oa.letterformarchive.org |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Elisabeth Senault · Fifty Women · Bridwell Library Special Collections Exhibitions |url=https://bridwell.omeka.net/exhibits/show/fiftywomen/laterprinters/senault |access-date=2024-03-10 |website=bridwell.omeka.net}}</ref>. She was trained by her father Louis Senault, who was a leading French engraver. Following her father’s death, she created private prayer books for the French royal court. Senault engraved these prayer books using plates embellished with decorative borders, floriated initials, delicate flowers, birds, tiny insects, arabesques, and flourishes, which imitated the intricacy and ornamentation of illuminated manuscript prayer books<ref>{{Cite web |title=Heures nouuelles dédiées a Monseigneur Dauphin, ecrites et grauées par Elisabeth Senault · Duke University Library Exhibits |url=https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/items/show/4009 |access-date=2024-03-10 |website=exhibits.library.duke.edu}}</ref><ref name=":0" />. {{Infobox person/Wikidata | fetchwikidata=ALL | qid=Q124809829 }}▼

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▲{{bio-stub}}'''Elisabeth Senault''' was a French artist, [[Calligraphy|calligrapher]], and [[Engraving|engraver]], active in the late 17th century .<ref>{{Cite web |title=Online Archive |url=https://oa.letterformarchive.org/ |access-date=2024-03-10 |website=oa.letterformarchive.org |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Elisabeth Senault · Fifty Women · Bridwell Library Special Collections Exhibitions |url=https://bridwell.omeka.net/exhibits/show/fiftywomen/laterprinters/senault |access-date=2024-03-10 |website=bridwell.omeka.net}}</ref>. She was trained by her father {{interlanguage link|Louis Senault|fr}}, who was a leading French engraver. Following her father’sfather's death, she created private prayer books for the French royal court. Senault engraved these prayer books using plates embellished with decorative borders, floriatedfloral initials, delicate flowers, birds, tiny insects, arabesques, and flourishes, which imitated the intricacy and ornamentation of illuminated manuscript prayer books.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Heures nouuelles dédiées a Monseigneur Dauphin, ecrites et grauées par Elisabeth Senault · Duke University Library Exhibits |url=https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/items/show/4009 |access-date=2024-03-10 |website=exhibits.library.duke.edu}}</ref><ref name=":0" />. {{Infobox person/Wikidata | fetchwikidata=ALL | qid=Q124809829 }}

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[[Category:Calligraphers]]

[[Category:French calligraphers]]

[[Category:17th-century French women artists]]

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