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
Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (; 27 January 181417 September 1879) was a French architect and author who restored many prominent medieval landmarks in France, including those which had been damaged or abandoned during the French Revolution. H ...
. His first engravings were to illustrate archeological publications, and next he began to produce
etching
Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. In modern manufacturing, other chemicals may be used on other types ...
s of old master and contemporary paintings.
After establishing his reputation, Gaucherel took pupils in Paris, and among those he taught were
Victor Gustave Lhuillier
Victor Gustave Lhuillier (19 April 1844 – July 1889) was a French engraver and etcher.
Born at Altkirch, Alsace, which was then in France, Lhuillier studied art in Lyons and was a pupil of Léon Gaucherel (1816–1886). "LHUILLIER (Victor-Gustav ...
,
Louis Monzies
Louis Monziès (28 May 1849 – 13 March 1930) was a French painter and etcher. He was the curator of the three Museums of Le Mans for 10 years until his death.
Career
Louis Monziès began to learn painting and etching in Paris in 1871 ...
,
Edmond Ramus
Edmond Joseph Ramus (5 May 1822 – 1890) was a French etcher best known for his reproductions of paintings for art catalogues.
Ramus was born in Paris and first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1847.Adolphe Lalauze. His work on the ''
Gazette des Beaux-Arts
The ''Gazette des Beaux-Arts'' was a French art review, founded in 1859 by Édouard Houssaye, with Charles Blanc as its first chief editor. Assia Visson Rubinstein was chief editorial secretary under the direction of George Wildenstein from 1936 ...
'' with his fellow printmaker
Léopold Flameng
Léopold Flameng (22 November 1831, Brussels – 5 September 1911, Courgent) was a French engraver, illustrator and painter.
Biography
His parents were from France, and he began his artistic studies in Paris with Luigi Calamatta and Jean Gigo ...
helped to lift the publication's reputation.
In his ''Etchings by French and English Artists'' (1874)
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Philip Gilbert Hamerton (10 September 1834 – 4 November 1894) was a British artist, art critic and author. He was a keen advocate of contemporary printmaking and most of his writings concern the graphic arts. He was an important theorist ...
included work by Gaucherel and
Alphonse Legros
Alphonse Legros (8 May 1837 – 8 December 1911) was a French, later British, painter, etcher, sculptor, and medallist. He moved to London in 1863 and later took British citizenship. He was important as a teacher in the British etching rev ...
.Philip Gilbert Hamerton, ''Etchings by French and English Artists'' (London: Seeley, 1874)
Gallery
File:La Roche-Maurice A.jpg, La Roche-Maurice, c. 1840
File:Léon Gaucherel Eglise de Pencran.jpg, Notre-Dame de Pencran, 1844
File:Adrien Dauzats after Léon Gaucherel, Puits du Chateau de Nantes, Bretagne, 1846, NGA 111171.jpg, Well at the Chateau de Nantes, Brittany, 1846
File:Athenes, Athènes transformée en ville gothique de la Flandre, ville flamande, gravé par Léon Gaucherel Fac-Simile d' - Laborde Léon Emmanuel S - 1854.jpg, Athens as a Gothic town of Flanders, 1854
File:Léon Gaucherel Eglise Saint-Fiacre.jpg, Church of Saint-Fiacre
File:Coquelin cadet-1872-Maitre Pathelin.jpg, Coquelin as Maitre Pathelin, 1872
File:Léon Gaucherel A Venise.jpg, In Venice, 1873
File:Léon Gaucherel, after Willem van de Velde, A Gale at Sea.jpeg, A Gale at Sea, 1876
Harvard Art Museums
The Harvard Art Museums are part of Harvard University and comprise three museums: the Fogg Museum (established in 1895), the Busch-Reisinger Museum (established in 1903), and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum (established in 1985), and four research ...