{{short description|French painter}} {{For|the painter from Mauritius|Antoine Toussaint de Chazal}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox artist | name = Antoine Chazal | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1793|11|8}} | birth_place = Paris, France | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1854|8|12|1793|11|8}} | death_place = Paris, France | field = Painting, engraving | training = | movement = | spouse = | works = | patrons = | awards = }} [[File:Chazal, Lancement du Friedland.jpg|right|thumb|"Lancement du Friedland" by Chazal; Musée Thomas-Henry in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin.]]
'''Antoine Chazal''' (8 November 1793 – 12 August 1854) was a French painter of flowers and of portraits, as well as an engraver.<ref>{{Bryan (3rd edition)|title=Chazal, Antoine |volume=1}}</ref> He was born in Paris. He studied under Misbach, Bidauld, and Van Spaendonck, and became Professor of Iconography at the Jardin des Plantes. Besides portraits, flowers, and fruit, he painted a few landscapes and altar-pieces for churches. He also engraved a portrait of Cardinal La Fare. Chazal died in Paris in 1854.<ref>Philippe Nusbaumer, ''Antoine Chazal, 1793-1854, Vie et Œuvre,'' Le Pecq, 2013, préface de Pierre Rosenberg, {{ISBN|9782951186026}}.</ref>
He was the brother-in-law of writer and activist Flora Tristan, and through her, the great-uncle of painter Paul Gauguin.
== Engravings == Chazal drew many effigies for the engraver and publisher Ambroise Tardieu, who does not mention it in his prints (see below the legends of the portraits)<ref>Philippe Nusbaumer, "Antoine Chazal, 1793–1854, Life and Work", chapter Ambroise Tardieu, p. 556.</ref>
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