Pierre Gustave Eugene Staal (2 September 1817–19 October 1882), was a French artist and draughtsman

Drawing

Drawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, markers, styluses, and various metals .An artist who...

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He entered the workshop of painter Paul Delaroche at the École des Beaux-Arts

École des Beaux-Arts

École des Beaux-Arts refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The most famous is the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, now located on the left bank in Paris, across the Seine from the Louvre, in the 6th arrondissement. The school has a history spanning more than 350 years,...

 in 1838, and then learned engraving

Engraving

Engraving is the practice of incising a design on to a hard, usually flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing...

 with Adolphe Varin in 1845. He provided the artwork for several engraved works (Les Femmes de M. de Balzac, types, caractères et portraits, 1851; Chants et chansons by Pierre Dupont

Pierre Dupont

Pierre Dupont , French song-writer, the son of a blacksmith, was born in Lyon.His parents both died before he was five years old, and he was brought up in the country by his godfather, a village priest. He was educated at the seminary of L'Argentire, and was afterwards apprenticed to a notary at Lyon...

, 1851-59); for illustrated periodicals (Musée des familles

Musée des familles

Musée des familles was an illustrated French literary magazine that was published in Paris from 1833 to 1900. It was founded by Émile de Girardin....

, Magasin pittoresque); for novels (La Comédie humaine, by Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon....

, 1842-1846; Œuvres illustrées de Balzac, 1851-1853; Les Mystères de Paris, by Eugène Sue

Eugène Sue

Joseph Marie Eugène Sue was a French novelist.He was born in Paris, the son of a distinguished surgeon in Napoleon's army, and is said to have had the Empress Joséphine for godmother. Sue himself acted as surgeon both in the Spanish campaign undertaken by France in 1823 and at the Battle of Navarino...

, 1843-1844; Corinne ou l'Italie, by Mme de Staël

Marguerite De Launay, Baronne Staal

Marguerite Jeanne Cordier de Launay, baronne de Staal was a French author.-Life:De Launay was born in Paris. Her father was a painter named Cordier. He seems to have deserted her mother, who then resumed her maiden name, de Launay, which was also adopted by her daughter...

, 1853); and for books for children (Contes du docteur Sam, by Henry Berthoud, 1862; Le Magasin des enfants, by Mme Leprince de Beaumont, 1865; Les Contes de tous les pays, by Emile Chasles, 1867). He also did drawings for Muses et Fées, histoire des femmes mythologiques, by Joseph Méry

Joseph Méry

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 and Count Foelix (1851) and for the volume of the Chants et chansons populaires de France (Garnier brothers editors, 1848).

Staal drew several portraits of women intended for engraving (Les Femmes de la Bible, collection de portraits des femmes remarquables de l'Ancien et du Nouveau Testament, by Monsignor

Monsignor

Monsignor, pl. monsignori, is the form of address for those members of the clergy of the Catholic Church holding certain ecclesiastical honorific titles. Monsignor is the apocopic form of the Italian monsignore, from the French mon seigneur, meaning "my lord"...

 Georges Darboy

Georges Darboy

Georges Darboy was a French Catholic priest, later bishop of Nancy then archbishop of Paris. He was among a group of prominent hostages executed as the Paris Commune of 1871 was about to be overthrown....

, 1846; Galerie des femmes célèbres, tirée des Causeries du lundi par Sainte-Beuve, 1859; Les Etoiles du monde. Galerie historique des femmes les plus célèbres de tous les temps et de tous les pays, ouvrage collectif, 1858). He also carried out some lithographs (Souvenir de première communion; Album de La Chronique illustrée, guerre et Commune). He also did some paintings (Visitation, 1864; Lucifer, 1868 ; La Famille malheureuse).

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• Les graveurs de l'édition Furne de La Comédie humaine
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