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AUDEBERT, JEAN BAPTISTE (1759-1800)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 896 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUDEBERT, See also:JEAN See also:BAPTISTE (1759-1800) , See also:French artist and naturalist, was See also:born at See also:Rochefort in 1759. He studied See also:painting and See also:drawing at See also:Paris, and gained considerable reputation as a See also:miniature-painter. Employed in preparing plates for the Histoire See also:des coleopteres of G. A. See also:Olivier (1756-1814), he acquired a See also:taste for natural See also:history. In "Soo appeared his first See also:original See also:work,L'Histoire naturelle des singes, des makis et des galeopitheques, illustrated by sixty-two See also:folio plates, See also:drawn and engraved by himself. The colouring in these plates was unusually beautiful, and was applied by a method devised by himself. Audebert died in Paris in 1800, leaving See also:complete materials for another See also:great work, Histoire des colibris, des oiseaux-mouches, desjacamars et des promerops, which was published in 1802. Two See also:hundred copies were printed in folio, one hundred in large See also:quarto, and fifteen were printed with the whole See also:text in letters of See also:gold. Another work, See also:left unfinished, was also published after the author's See also:death, L'Histoire des grimpereaux et des oiseaux de paradis. The last two See also:works also appeared together in two volumes, Oiseaux dores ou d reflets metalliques (1802).

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