(b St Omer, Pas-de-Calais, 5 April 1828; d Paris, 1875). French dealer and print publisher. He was the son of an innkeeper and joined the army in 1848. After spending several years in Lyon, he returned to St Omer and in 1859 married the sister of the printmaker and painter François Chifflart. In that year he gave up his modest position with a railway company and set up in Paris in the Rue de Richelieu as a print dealer and print publisher. His first publication appeared in May 1859 and was an album of Chifflart’s works illustrated with photographs, lithographs and etchings. He also launched two illustrated periodicals, Paris mystérieux (1861) and Paris qui s’en va (1859; only one issue published). In 1861 he went into partnership with the photographer Félix Chevalier, and in August of that year they held an exhibition of photographs of the principal pictures of the Salon, as well as an exhibition of paintings that included landscapes by Corot and Claudius Jacquand from Lyon, the latter an artist in whom they took an interest. In that year they also published their first original etchings, a set of prints (Esquisses à l’eau-forte) by Alphonse Legros. In 1862 they began to publish monthly issues of the Société des Aquafortistes (Eaux-fortes modernes: Oeuvres inédites et originales, 5 vols (Paris, 1862–7)), which included work by Legros, Manet, Félix Bracquemond, Johan Barthold Jongkind and François Bonvin. That year Cadart also hoped to encourage the production of original lithographs by distributing three stones each to Legros, Manet, Bracquemond, Théodule Ribot and Henri Fantin-Latour for them to work on. Manet’s The Balloon (1862) was one of the results of the experiment, but the projected set was never published. However, Cadart published most of Manet’s original etchings.

• Cadart, Alfred
  • Appian, Adolphe
  • Legros, Alphonse
  • Manet, Edouard, §1(ii): Life and work, 1859–65
  • printmakers
    • Master printers, §III: Specialization and collaboration
  • works
    • Chifflart, François