Cochin, Nicolas (or Natalis)

a French designer and engraver, was born at Troyes, in Champagne, about 1619. He settled at Paris, where he engraved a great number of plates, among them, Melchizedek and Abraham; Abraham Sending away Hagar; The Children of Israel Crossing the Red Sea; St. John Preaching in the Wilderness; The Repose in Egypt; The Conversion of St. Paul; The Adoration of the Magi; Pharaoh and his Host Swallowed up in the Red Sea. He died in 1695. See Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine Arts, s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.