Jean Baptiste Audebert

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Depiction of a hummingbird
Ornismya Audeberti or L'Audebert a synonym for Chlorestes notata
Beetles of the genus Hexodon in the atlas by Guillaume Antoine Olivier and illustrated by Audebert

Jean Baptiste Audebert (pronounced "ohd'bähr") (born March 2, 1759 in Rochefort , † December 5, 1800 in Paris ) was a French naturalist and painter.

Live and act

Audebert came to Paris early on and trained as a miniature painter in various studios . The patron , the wealthy promoter of natural history, especially entomology and mineralogy, Jean Baptiste Francois Gigot d'Orcy (1733–1793) became aware of him and hired him, despite politically troubled times ( French Revolution ), to present his natural history private collection in miniatures .

When the revolution developed into a reign of terror , Audebert accepted an offer from his patron and at his expense went on a long study trip through the Netherlands and later to England . During this time the first pictures were taken, which were then published in his Histoire naturelle 1800.

Audebert, Johann Friedrich Leberecht Reinhold and Jean-Baptiste Meunier (1786-1858) were the illustrators who worked for Guillaume Antoine Olivier in his atlases on entomology, ou, Histoire naturelle des insectes avec leurs caractères génériques et spécifiques, leur description, leur synonymie, et leur enluminée contributed. Until the end of his life, Audebert worked on his Histoire naturelle et générale des colibris ; a work that in its splendor remained unsurpassed for a long time. It was completed by Louis Pierre Vieillot after Audebert's death and published by Desray in 1802.

Audebert's great art was to apply and print different colors on a plate at the same time. With the colors themselves, he was the first to switch from watercolors to oil paints . The use of gold in the illustrations also earned him a lot of praise.

Today a street in his hometown is named after him.

In 1801, together with Vieillot, he described the following species and subspecies that were new to science:

Works (selection)

  • Histoire naturelle des singes, des makis et des galéopithéques . Desray, Paris ( gallica.bnf.fr - 1799-1800).
  • Illustration with Johann Friedrich Leberecht Reinhold and Jean-Baptiste Meunier in Guillaume Antoine Olivier: Entomologie ou histoire naturelle des insectes. Avec leurs caractères génériques et specifiques, leur description, leur synonymie et leur figure enluminée . Atlas 1. Baudouin, Paris 1808 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Illustration with Johann Friedrich Leberecht Reinhold and Jean-Baptiste Meunier in Guillaume Antoine Olivier: Entomologie ou histoire naturelle des insectes. Avec leurs caractères génériques et specifiques, leur description, leur synonymie et leur figure enluminée . Atlas 2. Baudouin, Paris 1808 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • with Louis Pierre Vieillot: Oiseaux Dorés ou à Reflets Métalliques. Histoire Naturelle et Générale des Colibris, Oiseaux-Mouches, Jacamars et Promerops . tape 1 . Desray, Paris 1800 ( archive.org ).
  • with Louis Pierre Vieillot: Oiseaux Dorés ou à Reflets Métalliques. Histoire Naturelle et Générale des Grimpéraux et des Oiseaux de Paradis . tape 2 . Desray, Paris 1800 ( archive.org ).

literature

  • Julius Meyer: General artist lexicon . Engelmann, Leipzig 1872–1885 (3 vols., Here vol. 2).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gigot d'Orcy, l'entomologiste
personal data
SURNAME Audebert, Jean Baptiste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French naturalist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1759
PLACE OF BIRTH Rochefort
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 1800
Place of death Paris