Juste Chevillet

Juste Chevillet (1729–1802) was a French engraver. He is known for his engravings for the Histoire Naturelle of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.

Jasmin d'Esagne by Juste Chevillet after Louis Tessier from the Livre de Principes de Fleurs
Juste Chevillet
Born1729
Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany
Died1802
Paris, France
NationalityGerman, French
OccupationEngraver

Life

Juste Chevillet was born in 1729 in Frankfurt an der Oder. He studied engraving in Berlin under George Frederic Schmidt. He then moved to Paris to complete his studies with Johann Georg Wille, who became his brother-in-law.[1] He probably reached Paris no earlier than 1750. The Livre de Principes de Fleurs, an undated compilation of engravings of flowers by Chevillet after drawings by Louis Tessier (c. 1719–81) was probably published some time after 1755. It was used as a source of decorations for the marquetry of Jean Henri Riesener (1734–1896).[2] Other cabinet makers used the engravings for marquetry including Jean-Pierre Latz, Jean-François Oeben, Roger Vandercruse Lacroix, Abraham Roentgen (1711–93) and his son David Roentgen (1743-1807).[3] The earliest dated example of such marquetry is a 1769 roll-top desk for King Louis XV of France by Riesener and Oeben.[4]

Engraving of George "Wasington". Later editions corrected the spelling.[5]

Chevillet made an engraving of an oil painting of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis that was used on a two-dollar note issued around 1828 by the Chemical Bank of New York City.[6] The engraving was made in 1778 from the original owned by Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont, who had hosted Franklin at the Hôtel Valentinois in Passy.[7] He made an engraving of George Washington after a design by Michel Honoré Bounieu.[8] Chevillet was living in Paris in 1795.[1] He died in Paris around 1800 or 1802.[9][10]

Selected works

Other works by Chevillet include:[11]

  • Chardin (Jean-Baptiste-Simeon), French painter (1771). Bust after a self-portrait
  • Diderot (Denis). Bust after a drawing by Bounieu of a bust by M. Houdon
  • Louis-Philippe, duc d'Orleans. bust drawn and engraved by Chevillet.
  • Hannetaire (Eugenie). Portrait of the actress as a young sultaness, after Le Gendre
  • Jordan (Jean-Louis), businessman. 1762
  • Lenoir, lieutenant de police. 1778. Bust
  • Sartine (A.-R.-J.-G. de), comte d'Alby, lieutentent general de police

Histoire naturelle
Bureau du Roi by Jean Henri Riesener with marquetry designs copied from Chevillet's engravings

Chevillet made the engravings for several volumes of Buffon's great Histoire naturelle:[12]

  • Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1788), Illustrations de Histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes ovipares et des serpens (in French), I, Dessinateur : Jacques de Sève;Graveur : Juste Chevillet, Sébastien Leroy, M. R. V. Tardieu, Paris: Hotel de Thou, p. 45
  • Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1789), Illustrations de Histoire naturelle des serpens (in French), II, Dessinateur : Jacques de Sève; Graveur : Juste Chevillet, De Launay, M. R. V. Tardieu, Paris: Hotel de Thou, p. 24
  • Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1778), Illustrations de Histoire naturelle générale et particulière] Supplément (in French), III, Graveur : Aldring, Juste Chevillet , Pasch, Paris: Imprimerie royale, p. 9
  • Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1761), Illustrations de Histoire naturelle générale et particulière avec la description du cabinet du roy (in French), Dessinateur : Buvée, Jacques de Sève; Graveur : Jean Charles Baquoy, Juste Chevillet, Louis Legrand, Paris: Imprimerie royale, p. 42
  • Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1760), Illustrations de Histoire naturelle générale et particulière avec la description du cabinet du roy (in French), VIII, Dessinateur : Buvée, Jacques de Sève; Graveur : Jean Charles Baquoy, Juste Chevillet, Louis Legrand, Paris: Imprimerie royale, p. 56
  • Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1764), Illustrations de Histoire naturelle générale et particulière avec la description du cabinet du roy (in French), XII, Dessinateur : Buvée, Jacques de Sève; Graveur : Jean Charles Baquoy, Juste Chevillet, Louis Legrand, Paris: Imprimerie royale, p. 60
  • Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1765), Illustrations de Histoire naturelle générale et particulière avec la description du cabinet du roy (in French), XIII, Dessinateur : Buvée, Jacques de Sève; Graveur : Jean Charles Baquoy, Juste Chevillet, Louis Legrand, Paris: Imprimerie royale, p. 61
  • Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1766), Illustrations de Histoire naturelle générale et particulière avec la description du cabinet du roy (in French), XIV, Dessinateur : Buvée, Jacques de Sève; Graveur : Jean Charles Baquoy, Juste Chevillet, Louis Legrand, Paris: Imprimerie royale, p. 43

Notes
    1. Huber, Rost & Martini 1797, p. 173.
    2. Yannick Chastang 2007, p. 115.
    3. Yannick Chastang 2007, p. 117.
    4. Yannick Chastang 2007, p. 118.
    5. Was[h]ington ... Mount Vernon Ladies’ Assn.
    6. Craven 1971, p. 50.
    7. Mumford 1956, p. 404.
    8. Greenough 1918–1919, p. 117.
    9. Douen 1879, pp. 193–194.
    10. Andresen, Heller & Wessely 1870, p. 263.
    11. Firmin-Didot 1877, p. 85-87.
    12. Juste Chevillet ... BnF.

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