Pierre-Gustave-Eugène Staal (2 September 1817 in

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– 19 October 1882 in Ivry), was a French artist, lithographer, illustrator and

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.Revue de Champagne et de Brie - Volumes 12 à 13 1882 - Page 389 "Pierre-Gustave Staal est mort à Ivry, des suites d'une maladie de cœur. Il était né dans la Marne, à Vertus, et était âgé de soixante-cinq ans. Ceux qui ont suivi les développements de la vignette un France dans la seconde moitié de ce siècle, ..." He entered the workshop of painter

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at the

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in 1838, and then learned

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with Adolphe Varin in 1845. He provided the artwork for several engraved works (''Les Femmes de M. de Balzac, types, caractères et portraits'' 1851; ''Chants et chansons'' by

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, 1851–59); for illustrated periodicals (''

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'', ''Magasin pittoresque''); for novels (''La Comédie humaine'', by

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, 1842–1846; ''Œuvres illustrées de Balzac'', 1851–1853; ''Les Mystères de Paris'', by

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, 1843–1844; ''Corinne ou l'Italie'', by

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, 1853); and for books for children (''Contes du docteur Sam'', by Henry Berthoud, 1862; ''Le Magasin des enfants'', by Mme Leprince de Beaumont, 1865; ''Les Contes de tous les pays'', by Emile Chasles, 1867). He also did drawings for ''Muses et Fées, histoire des femmes mythologiques'', by

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and Count Foelix (1851) and for the volume of the ''Chants et chansons populaires de France'' (Garnier brothers editors, 1848). Staal drew several portraits of women intended for engraving (''Les Femmes de la Bible, collection de portraits des femmes remarquables de l'Ancien et du Nouveau Testament'', by

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, 1846; ''Galerie des femmes célèbres, tirée des Causeries du lundi par Sainte-Beuve'', 1859; ''Les Etoiles du monde. Galerie historique des femmes les plus célèbres de tous les temps et de tous les pays, ouvrage collectif'', 1858). He also carried out some lithographs (''Souvenir de première communion''; ''Album de La Chronique illustrée, guerre et Commune''). He also did some paintings (''Visitation'', 1864; ''Lucifer'', 1868; ''La Famille malheureuse'').

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