Louis-Henri Brévière, born at Forges-les-Eaux

Forges-les-Eaux

Forges-les-Eaux is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.-Geography:A farming and spa town, with considerable light industry, situated by the banks of the rivers Andelle and Epte, in the Pays de Bray, some southeast of Dieppe, at the junction...

 in 1797, was a French wood-engraver

Wood engraving

Wood engraving is a technique in printmaking where the "matrix" worked by the artist is a block of wood. It is a variety of woodcut and so a relief printing technique, where ink is applied to the face of the block and printed by using relatively low pressure. A normal engraving, like an etching,...

, to whom is due the honour of having revived the art of wood-engraving, which had been neglected in France since the 17th century. His works number about 3000, and among them may be especially noticed the Palais de Gaillon

Château de Gaillon

The Château de Gaillon is a renaissance castle located in Gaillon, Haute-Normandie region of France.-History:The somewhat battered and denuded Château de Gaillon, begun in 1502 on ancient foundationswas the summer archiepiscopal residence of Georges d'Amboise, Cardinal Archbishop of Rouen; he ...

, the arch of the Gros-Horloge at Rouen

Rouen

Rouen , in northern France on the River Seine, is the capital of the Haute-Normandie region and the historic capital city of Normandy. Once one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe , it was the seat of the Exchequer of Normandy in the Middle Ages...

, and his engravings from the designs of Chenavard

Paul Chenavard

Paul-Marc-Joseph Chenavard was a French painter.- Life:Entering the École des beaux-arts en 1825, he studied in the studio of Ingres alongside his friend Joseph Guichard, then in the studios of Hersent and Delacroix....

, Grandville

Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard

Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard , generally known by the pseudonym of J. J. Grandville, was a French caricaturist.-Life and work:...

, Meissonier

Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier

Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier was a French Classicist painter and sculptor famous for his depictions of Napoleon, his armies and military themes. He documented sieges and manoeuvres and was the teacher of Édouard Detaille.-Biography:Ernest Meissonier was born at Lyon...

, Descamps

Jean-Baptiste Descamps

Jean-Baptiste Descamps was a French writer and painter of village scenes.Descamps was born in Dunkirk, but lived principally at Paris, till an accidental circumstance fixed him at Rouen, in 1740...

, Fragonard

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Jean-Honoré Fragonard was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Régime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings , of which only five...

, Girardet, Français

François-Louis Français

François Louis Français , French painter, was born at Plombières-les-bains , and, on attaining the age of fifteen, was placed as office-boy with a bookseller....

, Tony Johannot

Tony Johannot

Antoine Johannot, usually called Tony Johannot, was a French engraver, illustrator and painter.-Biography:He was born in Offenbach am Main on 9 November 1803. His father, François Johannot , owned a silk factory in Germany, where the family had fled after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes...

, Raffet

Denis Auguste Marie Raffet

Denis Auguste Marie Raffet was a French illustrator and lithographer. He was a student of Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, and was a retrospective painter of the Empire.-Biography:Raffet was born in Paris....

, Devéria, Gavarni

Paul Gavarni

Paul Gavarni was the nom de plume of Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier , a French caricaturist, born in Paris...

, Gustave Doré

Gustave Doré

Paul Gustave Doré was a French artist, engraver, illustrator and sculptor. Doré worked primarily with wood engraving and steel engraving.-Biography:...

, Bertall, and others. He died at Hyères

Hyères

Hyères , Provençal Occitan: Ieras in classical norm or Iero in Mistralian norm) is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France....

in 1869.