Charles-Étienne Gaucher

Engraved portrait of Jean-Charles Monnier, after a painting by Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier

Charles-Étienne Gaucher, a French engraver, born in Paris in 1740, was first a pupil of Basan, and afterwards of J. P. Le Bas. He died in Paris in 1804.

He engraved several portraits and other subjects, of which the following are the principal:

Portraits[]

• Maria Cecilia, Ottoman Princess, daughter of Achmet III; after his own design.
• , celebrated Advocate; after .
• Louis Gillet.
• Louis Augustus, Dauphin of France; after Gautier.
• J. P. Timoléon de Cossé, Duke of Brissac; after St. Aubin.
• Louis de Grimaldi, Bishop of Le Mans. 1767.

Various subjects[]

• An allegorical subject, to the memory of J. P. Le Bas; after Cochin.
• The Crowning of Voltaire; after Moreau.
• The Card-players; after Tilborch.
• Repose; after Gaspar Netscher.

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

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