François Chauveau

François Chauveau ( born May 10, 1613 Paris, † February 3, 1676 ) was a French artist, engraver, etcher and painter.

Life and work

François Chauveau was the second son of Lubin Chauveau, a ruined member of the gentry, and Marguerite de Fleurs. He went on Laurent de La Hyre in the teaching and manufactured along with it etchings on. On February 8, 1652, he married Marguerite Roger. As the names of the godfathers and godmothers testify to his children, Chauveau was thanks to his talent and sound education easy contact with other scholars and artists, including Charles Sorel, Charles Lebrun, Jean Varin and Nicole Nanteuil -Geneviève, daughter of Robert Nanteuil. On April 14, 1663 Chauveau was recorded as " conseiller " to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. He died in 1676 in his hometown of hypothermia.

Chauveau was an extremely prolific artist. So far, about 1,600 of prints have been cataloged, most of which he made to his own design on. A large part of Chauveau's works were illustrations for books, plays and poems. According to J. M. Papillon, who wrote in 1738 a memorandum to Chauveau, about 1400 sheets of other artists were stung by Chauveau's drawings. Chauveau was also a painter, not met with his paintings but of particular interest.

Probably Chauveau had two students, Jean Baptiste Broebes and Edward Davis. He was the father of, among others, René, and Louis Evrard Chauveau.