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Chauvel, Théophile-Narcisse
(b Paris, 2 April 1831; d Paris, 28 Dec 1909). French painter and printmaker. He trained under Claude-François-Théodore Caruelle d’Aligny, Jean-Joseph-François Bellel (1816–98) and François-Edouard Picot, and in 1849 he started working at Marlotte in the forest of Fontainebleau, where he produced works such as Trees and Rocks (c. 1852; see Aubrun, pl. 4). He entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1854 and won the Deuxième Prix de Rome for historical landscape. In 1855 he made his début at the Salon with a landscape, Recollection of Neuilly Park (untraced). After 1859 he devoted himself mainly to etching. He produced original etchings in the 1860s, such as Solitude (1862; Paris, Bib. N.), some of which were published and some exhibited at the Salon from 1864. In 1870 he exhibited two reproductive etchings—Storm (1870; Paris, Bib. N.) after Narcisse Diaz, and the Empty Path (1869; Paris, Bib. N.) after Richard Parkes Bonington. From then on his output largely consisted of etchings after paintings by French and British artists, including Corot, Jean-François Millet, Théodore Rousseau, John Everett Millais and Benjamin Williams Leader. These were published by Galeries Goupil, Georges Petit and the London dealer Arthur Tooth; some also appeared in the Gazette des beaux-arts, Edouard Lièvre’s Musée universel and Léon Gauchez’s L’Art. Chauvel also continued to produce occasional original works such as the Banks of the Seine (1899; Paris, Bib. N.) and exhibited at the Salon until 1904.
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