Audebert, JEAN BAPTISTE

Audebert, JEAN BAPTISTE, a French naturalist and artist, was born in 1759 at Rochefort, and at Paris attained eminence as a miniature-painter. In 1800 he published a splendid illustrated volume on the monkeys and lemurs, the Histoire Naturelle des Singes, a large folio, with coloured plates remarkable alike for their truth and beauty, and in whose production he introduced great improvements in the art of colour-printing in oil. He subsequently prepared a similar work on the humming-birds (1802), and another on the birds of paradise (1803), which were both completed and published after his death in 1800.