Charles Barbant

[2] His workshop was one of the largest in Paris; specializing in wood engraving for multiple reproductions; generally in the form of a stamp.

He was part of a small clique of engravers; with Charles Laplante [fr], Henri Théophile Hildibrand and Fortuné Méaulle, who worked for Louis Hachette.

His son, Auguste, also became an engraver and his daughter, Blanche, married the Brazilian illustrator, Henrique Alvim Corrêa.

His daughter from his first marriage, Jeanne Paule Julie, married the composer, Edmond Missa [fr].

[3] In addition to the illustrations for Verne, he made wood-engravings from drawings by Gustave Doré.

The 1881 Chios earthquake ; from The Universal Geography by Élisée Reclus et al.
A Chaldean Storyteller; from Ridpath's History of the World