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About Jean-Gabriel Charvet
- Jean-Gabriel Charvet (1750–1829), also known as Jean Gabriel Charvet, was a French painter, designer and draftsman who was born in Serrières, Ardèche, France.
- He studied at the École de Dessin in Lyon under the French artist Donat Nonotte (1708–1785) and worked as a designer for the French wallpaper manufacturer Joseph Dufour et Cie (1752–1827) of Mâcon, France.
- In 1773, Charvet travelled to Guadeloupe in the Caribbean on business for his uncle, and stayed for four years producing many studies of native flora and fauna, as well as landscapes.
- By 1785, he had established a drawing school in Annonay, south of Lyon.
- Annonay had been a papermaking region since the Sixteenth Century. Charvet's reputation rests on twenty-panels of scenic wallpaper titled Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique (The Savages of the South Pacific) which combine to form a neoclassical depiction of the explorations of Captain James Cook.
- The wallpaper was shown in Paris at the Exposition des produits de I’industrie francaise in 1806.
- Charvet died in Tournon-sur-Rhône, France in 1829.
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