Émile Bellier de la Chavignerie (6 December 1821, Chartres – 6 February 1871, Saint-Malo) was a French art historian.

He was the son of François Jean Baptiste Bellier de la Chavignerie, vice-president of the civil court of Chartres, and Francine Marchand.

His younger brother, François-Philippe Bellier de la Chavignerie (1828–1906), was a magistrate and deputy mayor of Chartres.

Émile began his career in the administration of Registration and Domains, where he worked eleven years before entering, in 1854, the Bibliothèque impériale, where he took a very active part in the catalogue of printed matter.

He had brought to light the first nine issues of the General Dictionary of Artists of the French School, the fruit of long and learned research which would have been the capital work of his life, when the Franco-Prussian War broke out in 1870.