Chauvet, Jules Adolphe

(9/29/1828 Peronne- c1905) (France)

   aka Chauvet, Adolphe

   Painter, master draughtsman, etcher, and illustrator. Trained in the studio of Charles Ciceri. Later in his career he specialized in providing illustrations for privately printed erotic literature [mostly for the publisher Gay and Douce], such as the 10 etchings for "La Guerre des Dieux." Original drawings by Chauvet were often engraved by Barraud.

   Reproductions: Centre of the world [tiny humans pouring out of a woman]; Neret, 1994: p. 432 . Illustrations for Memoires-suite de figures by Casanova [masked figures]; 1870; Wallace 2007: p. 139 [C]. Illustrations from Casanove in Bildern; 1876; Solow, 1980: p. 39 . L'Ecole des Biches — title page and illustrations; Kearney, 1982: pp. 132, 133 [B]. Memoirs of Casanova; engraving; Neret, 1994: pp. 322-337 [B]. [Nuns engaging in sex]], from Venus dans le Cloitre; 1868; watercolor; Kearney, 1982: pp. 42, 43 [C]. Ouevres Badines, title page; Grimley, 1973: fig. 88 [B].

   [b]Source: Benezit, vol. 3: p. 849; Casanova: cent deux figures galantes (Paris: Images Obliques, 1980); Jules Adolphe Chauvet, Casanova in Bildern (Hamburg: Heyne ex Libris, 1973); ThB VI 1912: p. 441.