He is known for his engravings for the Histoire Naturelle of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.
He then moved to Paris to complete his studies with Johann Georg Wille, who became his brother-in-law.
[3] The earliest dated example of such marquetry is a 1769 roll-top desk for King Louis XV of France by Riesener and Oeben.
[4] Chevillet made an engraving of an oil painting of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis that was used on a two-dollar note issued around 1828 by the Chemical Bank of New York City.
[6] The engraving was made in 1778 from the original owned by Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont, who had hosted Franklin at the Hôtel Valentinois in Passy.