Nicolas Delaunay; Pierre-Antoine Baudouin

The collaborative career of Nicolas Delaunay (engraver/printer) and Pierre-Antoine Baudouin (designer) spans a focused period between 1771 and 1775, during which they produced detailed copperplate engravings. Their joint activity involved Baudouin providing the design, with Delaunay executing the complex printing processes.

The importance of their partnership is established by the representation of their output in prestigious American institutions. Six of their collaborative Nicolas Delaunay; Pierre-Antoine Baudouin prints are represented in major museum collections, including the holdings of the National Gallery of Art.

Works attributed to their joint effort include the genre scenes L'Epouse indiscrete and La Sentinelle en défaut, both held in multiple examples, alongside the allegorical print Le Carquois épuisé (The Empty Quiver). These 18th-century images demonstrate meticulous engraving technique required for the reproduction of figure studies and detailed domestic narratives. Today, these historical records of French graphic arts are available to scholars and the public, often distributed as high-quality prints, with many works having entered the public domain.