See also: Chauveau

François Chauveau (May 10th 1613 in Paris - February 3rd 1676) is a draftsman, engraver and painter French.

Second wire of Lubin Chauveau, noble ruined, and of Marguerite de Fleurs. He studied in the workshop of Laurent of Hyre and specialized in the etching. Married to Marguerite Roger on February 8th, 1652, Louis XIV him attibua the title of Engraver of the King as well as a pension in 1662. Named to advise with the royal Academy of painting and sculpture on April 14th, 1663, he died in his birthplace in 1676.

Remarkable for its field crop and its imagination, it is one of the four French engravers cities by Charles Perrault in his " Men illustres". Chauveau left a work of almost 1600 parts (frontispieces, labels…) and illustrated works of Miss de Scudéry, Scarron, Molière, Racine, Boileau.

the Fountain called upon him to illustrate the first six books of its fables.

It would have had several pupils like: Nicolas Guérard, Jean-Baptiste Broebes and Edward Davis. Among his children, one finds Rene, Evrard and Louis Chauveau.