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.
• M. du Paty, celebrated Advocate; after Notte.
• 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.

Notes

This article incorporates text from the article "GAUCHER, Charles-Étienne" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.