André Eugène Dauchez (17 May 1870 – 15 May 1948), born in Paris, was a French painter, watercolourist, pastellist, engraver, draughtsman and illustrator known for landscapes, waterscapes and seascapes.

[1] Born in a family of lawyers, his elder sister Jeanne would be an artist and André Dauchez showed early predispositions for graphic arts.

While pursuing his studies, he was encouraged in the way of art by his mother, who found Gaston Rodriguez, an artist-engraver who from 1885 to 1887 taught and educated the young man's ability to see and transcribe only the essential.

André Dauchez had led a comprehensive study of the master and learned the art of light and the importance of values of white and black in a landscape rendering.

He also studied Dutch landscape painter of the seventeenth century Jacob van Ruisdael, as well as some of his contemporaries and friends like Georges Gobo, Raoul André Ulmann, Albert Decaris, Charles Jouas [fr], Pierre-Louis Moreau.