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Salvatore Tresca
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Salvatore Tresca
Salvatore Tresca (c. 1750 - 1815) was an Italian-born drawer and engraver, who worked in France.

Biography
Born in Palermo around 1750, Tresca is mentioned by Henri Béraldi as a stipple engraver who arrived in Paris at the start of the French Revolution, residing on Rue de la Barillerie, where he also seems to be a depositary of prints. In 1797, he was reported as living at 334 Rue des Mathurins.

He produced prints of works by the old masters, such as Paolo Veronese and Guido Reni, and of contemporaries, such as Louis-Léopold Boilly, Nicolas Lavreince, and Louis Lafitte. For the latter, he executed a series based on the twelve months of the French Republican calendar from the years 1797-1798, the sequence completed thanks to the help of the astronomer Alexis Bouvard was put up for sale in 1806 at the artist's at 4 Rue de the Sorbonne.

Some of his original creations included caricatures of life under the French Directory, especially the Incroyables, such as: Les Croyables, au péron (1797), La Folie du jour, Point de Convention , and Les Croyables au tripot. Along with others such as Joseph-Laurent Julien,, and the widow Girard (mother of the engraver ), Tesca is one of the many engravers who, from the end of 1795, produced genre engravings several times a year, with great freedom of tone.

From 1806 to 1814, under the direction of Jean-Louis Alibert, the four volume work Description des maladies de la peau (Description of Skin Diseases) was published, for which Tresca engraved 54 plates of scientific illustrations based on the sketches of G. Moreau Valvile.

It is reported that his business ceased on February 21, 1815, and his collection of prints was put up for sale in Paris.