Charles Émile Blanchard

Entomologist and Artist
Charles Émile Blanchard
(1819 – 1900)

Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Charles Émile Blanchard was a assistant-naturalist at Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris, and was later made chair of natural history of Crustacea, Arachnida and Insect. He wrote several books on entomology, as well as drawing illustrations for Jean-Baptiste Boisduval.

He drew the Lepidoptera illustrations for Boisduval and Feisthamel in the report on the epic

Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de Chine.

Some copies of illustrations in this website by Charles Émile Blanchard :-