Fortuné Méaulle

Fortuné Louis Méaulle (11 April 1844, Angers – 11 May 1916)[1] was a French wood-engraver and writer.

He apprenticed with Joseph Burn-Smeeton (fl.1840-1880), a British-born artist who worked with the French wood-engraver Auguste Tilly (1840–1898).

"[citation needed] He then established his own studio and was one of the first artists to work with Daniel Vierge.

Among his most notable illustrations are those made from pen and ink drawings by François Chifflart for The Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo, although Hugo had originally wanted them to be brush wash drawings, concerned that the resultant wood-engravings would not match the spirit of his writing.

The bulk of his work involved covers for the illustrated supplement to Le Petit Journal, most of them designed by Henri Meyer.