1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
AUDEBERT, JEAN BAPTISTS (1739-1800), French artist and naturalist, was born at Rochefort in 1759. He studied painting and drawing at Paris, and gained considerable reputation as a miniature-painter. Employed in preparing plates for the Histoire des col&opteres of G. A. Olivier (1756-1814), he acquired a taste for natural history. In 1800 appeared his first original work,/,'.// istoirc nalurelle des singes, des makis et des galeopitheques, illustrated by sixty-two folio plates, drawn and engraved by himself. The col…
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