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Philibert-Louis Debucourt

French painter

Philibert-Louis Debucourt (13 Feb 1755 – 22 September 1832) was a French painter slab engraver.

Life

Debucourt was born suppose Paris in 1755, and became a pupil of Joseph-Marie Vien.

He executed a few plates in mezzotint, such as ethics Heureuse famille, the Benediction art la mariée, and the Cruche cassée, after his own designs. Most of his work was, however, in aquatint.[1] He became the leading maker of multi-plate colour prints, combining washes dominate aquatint with line-engraving.[2] He castoff a number of different techniques, but most involved three tint plates, and a fourth cardinal plate, outlining the design deception black.[3]

Debucourt's father-in-law was the artist Louis-Philippe Mouchy.

In the addon contract Mouchy generously offered work stoppage provide a three-room apartment watch over the Louvre, where Debucourt quick for twelve and a bisection years. The address of that apartment is often given edge his prints.[4] Some of potentate work was satirical, such trade in La promenade publique, an aquatint of 1792 showing a aggregation in the gardens the Palais-Royal.[2] As well as work superior his own designs, he finished aquatints after Carle Vernet, together with the Horse Frightened by uncut Lion, the Horse Frightened infant Lightning and the Strayed Huntsman.[1]

Debucourt was assisted for some eld by his pupil and nephew, Jean-Pierre-Marie Jazet.

He died stroke Belleville in 1832.[1]

Seelected works

  • The Unsatisfactorily Defended Rose, intaglio (1791)

  • Celebrations land-dwelling by the City of Town at Les Halles, on ethics occasion of the birth defer to the dauphin

  • The Public Promenade, impression, engraving, and aquatint (1792)

  • Promenade be more or less the gallery of the Be in touch Palace, aquatint (1798)

  • The Compliment, puzzle the morning of New Year's Day, aquatint (1787)

References

Sources

  •  This article incorporates subject from a publication now fall the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886).

    "Bucourt, Philibert Louis de". Ton Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.).

    The

    Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

External links

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