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JEAN BAPTISTE AUDEBERT (1759-1800)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 896 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN See also:BAPTISTE See also:AUDEBERT (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 . See also: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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