The Quiet Maestro of Rococo Illustration In the glittering, often overwhelming landscape of eighteenth-century French art, where flamboyant masters like Jean-Baptiste Oudry and Charles André van Lont commanded the grandest stages, there existed a more subtle, meticulous form of brilliance. Nicolas-Gabriel Dupuis (1698–1771) was a master of this delicate realm. While he may not have sought the monumental scale of oil canvases, his infl…