Antoine Chazal

"Lancement du Friedland" by Chazal; Musée Thomas-Henry in Cherbourg.

Antoine Chazal (8 November 1793 in Paris – 12 August 1854 in Paris) was a French painter of flowers and of portraits, as well as an engraver. 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.

References

Philippe Nusbaumer, Antoine Chazal, 1793-1854, Vie et Œuvre, Le Pecq, 2013, préface de Pierre Rosenberg, ISBN 9782951186026.

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Chazal, Antoine". In Graves, Robert Edmund. Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.