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Cals, Adolphe-Félix
(b Paris, 17 Oct 1810; d Honfleur, 3 Oct 1880). French painter and printmaker. A workman’s son, he was apprenticed to the engraver Jean-Louis Anselin (1754–1823) at the age of 12. On his master’s death he went to the workshop of Ponce and Bosc, where he learnt to use the burin. He also lithographed works by François Boucher and Devéria. In 1828 he joined the studio of Léon Cogniet. Cals was never attracted by the brand of history painting practised by Cogniet, who failed to recognize his talent and compared him with Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. This conventional apprenticeship, therefore, had no influence on his art. At the beginning of the 1830s he drew and painted landscapes, and he made his début in the Salon in 1835 with a genre painting, Poor Woman (untraced), and several portraits. He exhibited regularly in the Salon until 1870.
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