# Antoine Chazal

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{{short description|French painter}}
{{For|the painter from Mauritius|Antoine Toussaint de Chazal}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1793|11|8}}
| birth_place = [Paris](/source/Paris), France
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1854|8|12|1793|11|8}}
| death_place = [Paris](/source/Paris), France
| field = Painting, [engraving](/source/engraving)
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[[File:Chazal, Lancement du Friedland.jpg|right|thumb|"Lancement du Friedland" by Chazal; [Musée Thomas-Henry](/source/Mus%C3%A9e_Thomas-Henry) in [Cherbourg-en-Cotentin](/source/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](/source/engraving).<ref>{{Bryan (3rd edition)|title=Chazal, Antoine |volume=1}}</ref> He was born in Paris. He studied under [Misbach](/source/%3Afr%3AS%C3%A9bastien-Joseph_Misbach), [Bidauld](/source/Jean-Joseph-Xavier_Bidauld), and [Van Spaendonck](/source/Gerard_van_Spaendonck), and became Professor of Iconography at the [Jardin des Plantes](/source/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](/source/Anne_Louis_Henri_de_La_Fare). Chazal died in Paris in 1854.<ref>Philippe Nusbaumer, ''Antoine Chazal, 1793-1854, Vie et Œuvre,'' [Le Pecq](/source/Le_Pecq), 2013, préface de [Pierre Rosenberg](/source/Pierre_Rosenberg), {{ISBN|9782951186026}}.</ref>

He was the brother-in-law of writer and activist [Flora Tristan](/source/Flora_Tristan), and through her, the great-uncle of painter [Paul Gauguin](/source/Paul_Gauguin).

== Engravings ==
Chazal drew many [effigies](/source/effigies) for the engraver and publisher [Ambroise Tardieu](/source/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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File:Alexandre Henri Gabriel de Cassini.jpg|[Alexandre Henri Gabriel de Cassini](/source/Alexandre_Henri_Gabriel_de_Cassini)
File: LOUIS AUGUSTE gris.jpg | [Jean-Louis-Auguste Loiseleur-Deslongchamps](/source/Jean-Louis-Auguste_Loiseleur-Deslongchamps)
File: Benjamin Gaillon.jpg | [Benjamin Gaillon](/source/%3Afr%3ABenjamin_Gaillon)
</gallery>

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