Background
Audebert was born at Rochefort in 1759.
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Recueil de planches de botanique de l'encyclope?die. Volume v.4 plates (French Edition)
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Histoire Naturelle Et Générale des Colibris, Oiseaux-Mouches, Jacamars Et Promerops (Classic Reprint) (French Edition)
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Jean-Baptiste Audebert
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He studied painting and drawing at Paris.
Career
In Paris he gained considerable reputation as a miniature-painter. Employed in preparing plates for the Histoire des cloportes of Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, he acquired a taste for natural history.
His first original work, Histoire naturelle des singes appeared in 1800, illustrated by sixty-two folio plates, drawn and engraved by himself. The coloring in these plates was unusually beautiful, and was applied by a method devised by himself.
Audebert died in Paris in December 1800, leaving complete materials for another work, Histoire des colibris, oiseaux-mouches, jacamars et promerops, which was published in 1802. Two hundred copies were printed in folio, one hundred in large quarto, and fifteen were printed with the whole text in letters of gold. Another work, left unfinished, was also published after the author's death, L'Histoire des grimpereaux et des oiseaux de paradis. The last two works also appeared together in two volumes, Oiseaux dorés, ou à reflets métalliques (1801-1802), written with his friend Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot. In this work he printed lines of gold and silver over the painted colours of the birds to give them a metallic sheen imitating the iridescent colours of nature.
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Jean Baptiste Audebert was a French artist and naturalist whose work was also included in the bestselling Relation du Voyage à la Recherche de la Pérouse. Audebert was a master of applying different colors to the plate and printing at the same time. Using of gold for illustrations also brought him great fame.
The street in his hometown bears his name.
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Histoire Naturelle Et Générale des Colibris, Oiseaux-Mouches, Jacamars Et Promerops (Classic Reprint) (French Edition)
(Excerpt from Histoire Naturelle Et Générale des Colibris,...)
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Recueil de planches de botanique de l'encyclope?die. Volume v.4 plates (French Edition)
(This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)
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Histoire Naturelle Et Générale des Colibris, Oiseaux-Mouches, Jacamars Et Promerops (Classic Reprint) (French Edition)
