A Life in French Painting Born in Châlons-en-Champagne, France, Joseph Navlet was a painter who emerged from a family of artists. He was the son of Jean Baptiste Navlet, a drawing master at the École normale de Châlons, and was part of a sibling group that included his brother Victor Navlet, a painter, and his brother Gustave Navlet, a sculptor. After studying under Abel de Pujol at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, Navlet began exhibiting his…