thumb|Halevy '''''L'artisan''''' (''The Craftsman'') is an opéra comique by Fromental Halévy, to a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Everist |first1=Mark |title=Giacomo Meyerbeer and Music Drama in Nineteenth-Century Paris |date=28 April 2023 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-000-93912-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0RO8EAAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref>

''L'artisan'' was the first of Halévy's operas to be staged (Opéra-Comique, Paris, 1827).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Letellier |first1=Robert Ignatius |last2=Fuller |first2=Nicholas Lester |title=Fromental Halévy and His Operas, 1799-1841 |date=20 April 2021 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |isbn=978-1-5275-6877-8 |pages=29 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lfcqEAAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref> The trivial plot is set in a shipyard in Antibes. The opera was withdrawn after 14 performances and seems never to have been revived.{{cn|date=February 2024}}

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