Antoine-Pierre-Charles Favart

Antoine-Pierre-Charles Favart (6 October 1780[1] – 28 March 1867) was a 19th-century French playwright, painter, engraver and diplomat.

[2] He was the grandson of Charles-Simon Favart and Marie Justine Benoite Duronceray, a celebrated actress of her time.

[3] Favart's works were published, his own plays were presented at Théâtre du Vaudeville.

He also participated as costume designer to other boulevard plays such as Le sultan du Havre by Armand d'Artois and Henri Dupin (1810).

He became a consul of France in Russia, secretary of the Duke of Caraman and the Duke de Polignac, in charge of diplomatic missions, he established ties with the playwright and poet Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy of whom he made an oil portrait in 1846.