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, Edmond Ramus, and Adolphe Lalauze. His work on the Gazette des Beaux-Arts with his fellow printmaker 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]

  • 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
  1. "Léon Gaucherel", British Museum, accessed 31 October 2021
  2. "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
  3. R. K. Engen, Dictionary of Victorian Engravers, Prints, Publishers and their Works (1979), p. 123
  4. Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Etchings by French and English Artists (London: Seeley, 1874)
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