Léon Gaucherel
Léon Gaucherel (21 May 1816 – 7 January 1886) was a French painter and etcher.
Born at Paris, Gaucherel became a pupil of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. His first engravings were to illustrate archeological publications, and next he began to produce etchings of old master and contemporary paintings.[1]
After establishing his reputation, Gaucherel took pupils in Paris, and among those he taught were Victor Gustave Lhuillier,[2] Louis Monzies, and Adolphe Lalauze. His work on the Gazette des Beaux-Arts with his fellow engraver Léopold Flameng helped to lift the publication's reputation.[3] In his Etchings by French and English Artists (1874) Philip Gilbert Hamerton included work by Gaucherel and Alphonse Legros.[4]
Gallery
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La Roche-Maurice, c. 1840 -
Notre-Dame de Pencran, 1844 -
Well at the Chateau de Nantes, Brittany, 1846 -
Athens as a Gothic town of Flanders, 1854 -
Church of Saint-Fiacre -
Coquelin as Maitre Pathelin, 1872 -
In Venice, 1873 -
A Gale at Sea, 1876
Notes
- ^ "Léon Gaucherel", British Museum, accessed 31 October 2021
- ^ "LHUILLIER (Victor-Gustave)", in Émile Bellier de La Chavignerie, Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'école française depuis l'origine des arts du dessin jusqu'à nos jours, Volume 1 (1882), p. 1046
- ^ R. K. Engen, Dictionary of Victorian Engravers, Prints, Publishers and their Works (1979), p. 123
- ^ Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Etchings by French and English Artists (London: Seeley, 1874)
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