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Chauveau François

• Lieu de naissanceParis
• Date de naissance1613
• Lieu de décèsParis
• Date de décès1676
• Notice biographiqueGraveur en taille-douce et éditeur occasionnel
  Edition de quelques pièces de ses élèves : Jean-Baptiste Broebes et Edward Le Davis
  
  Etcher, draughtsman and painter. His family belonged to the minor nobility; a decline in its fortunes obliged him to earn his living as an artist. Although he had been a pupil of Laurent de La Hyre, he forsook painting (except as an amateur), devoting himself wholly to printmaking; he became one of the most prolific etchers of his time, executing, in particular, a great many vignettes for books. He had an extraordinary facility in composition; his own oeuvre numbers more than 1600 prints, and he made some 1400 drawings for other printmakers. He was the 17th century’s most popular illustrator of fiction and plays. In 1663 Chauveau was admitted (reçu) to the Académie Royale and made a councillor. For Louis XIV he engraved (1664–70) the Carrousel de 1662: the quality of his work earned him the title of Graveur du Roi and a pension of 600 livres. He also set out to engrave, after Eustache Le Sueur, a series of the Life of St Bruno but died before finishing the work, which was completed by Sébastien Leclerc the elder. The inventory made after Chauveau’s death mentions various paintings by him.
  
  BIBLIOGRAPHY
  Thieme–Becker
  R.-A. Weigert: Inventaire du fonds français: Graveurs du dix-septième siècle, Paris, Bib. N., Cab. Est. cat., ii (Paris, 1951), pp. 393–560
  M. Préaud: ‘L’Inventaire après décès de François Chauveau, 20–28 février 1676’, Archvs A. Fr., n. s. 1, xxvi (1984), pp. 91–105
  
  Article rédigé par MAXIME PRÉAUD
  Groveart 2006.

1672

Paris

Editeur

Chauveau François

• Lieu de naissanceParis
• Date de naissance1613
• Lieu de décèsParis
• Date de décès1676
• Notice biographiqueGraveur en taille-douce et éditeur occasionnel
  Edition de quelques pièces de ses élèves : Jean-Baptiste Broebes et Edward Le Davis
  
  Etcher, draughtsman and painter. His family belonged to the minor nobility; a decline in its fortunes obliged him to earn his living as an artist. Although he had been a pupil of Laurent de La Hyre, he forsook painting (except as an amateur), devoting himself wholly to printmaking; he became one of the most prolific etchers of his time, executing, in particular, a great many vignettes for books. He had an extraordinary facility in composition; his own oeuvre numbers more than 1600 prints, and he made some 1400 drawings for other printmakers. He was the 17th century’s most popular illustrator of fiction and plays. In 1663 Chauveau was admitted (reçu) to the Académie Royale and made a councillor. For Louis XIV he engraved (1664–70) the Carrousel de 1662: the quality of his work earned him the title of Graveur du Roi and a pension of 600 livres. He also set out to engrave, after Eustache Le Sueur, a series of the Life of St Bruno but died before finishing the work, which was completed by Sébastien Leclerc the elder. The inventory made after Chauveau’s death mentions various paintings by him.
  
  BIBLIOGRAPHY
  Thieme–Becker
  R.-A. Weigert: Inventaire du fonds français: Graveurs du dix-septième siècle, Paris, Bib. N., Cab. Est. cat., ii (Paris, 1951), pp. 393–560
  M. Préaud: ‘L’Inventaire après décès de François Chauveau, 20–28 février 1676’, Archvs A. Fr., n. s. 1, xxvi (1984), pp. 91–105
  
  Article rédigé par MAXIME PRÉAUD
  Groveart 2006.

1672

Paris

Polyphème et Galatée

Lettre

à droite : F. Chauueau jn. et fec. C.P.R. 1672.

en bas

Gravure à l'eau-forte rehaussée au burin

H. au trait carré en mm : 88

L. au trait carré en mm : 282

H. du montage en mm : 650

L. du montage en mm : 500

Weigert (Roger-Armand), Inventaire du fonds français. Graveurs du XVIIe siècle, t.II [Boulanger (Jean) - Chauveau (François)], Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, 1951.

Weigert (Roger-Armand), Inventaire du fonds français. Graveurs du XVIIe siècle, t.II [Boulanger (Jean) - Chauveau (François)], Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, 1951.

IFF 144-149.

Herman Sandrine, Estampes françaises du XVIIe siècle. Une donation au musée des beaux-arts de Nancy, Editions du CTHS, Paris, 2008

Herman Sandrine, Estampes françaises du XVIIe siècle. Une donation au musée des beaux-arts de Nancy, Editions du CTHS, Paris, 2008

n°429.3., p.140

1999.15 Donation Thuillier

Cliché ville de Nancy, P. Buren

TH.99.15.540

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