Artist
Antoine Chazal
French, 1793–1854
Antoine Chazal was a French Realism artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Cleveland Museum of Art. Antoine Chazal was born in Paris.
Antoine Chazal (8 November 1793 – 12 August 1854) was a French painter of flowers and of portraits, as well as an engraver. He was born in Paris. 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.
He was the brother-in-law of writer and activist Flora Tristan, and through her, the great-uncle of painter Paul Gauguin.
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