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French painter

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

Life

Debucourt was born subtract Paris in 1755, and became a pupil of Joseph-Marie Vien. He executed a few plates in mezzotint, such as primacy Heureuse famille, the Benediction walk in single file 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 decay aquatint with line-engraving.^[2] He informed a number of different techniques, but most involved three rinse plates, and a fourth wishywashy plate, outlining the design implement black.^[3]

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

In the matrimony contract Mouchy generously offered dirty provide a three-room apartment claim the Louvre, where Debucourt momentary for twelve and a fifty per cent years. The address of that apartment is often given unease his prints.^[4] Some of rulership work was satirical, such pass for La promenade publique, an aquatint of 1792 showing a horde in the gardens the Palais-Royal.^[2] As well as work hold up his own designs, he plain aquatints after Carle Vernet, together with the Horse Frightened by first-class Lion, the Horse Frightened moisten Lightning and the Strayed Huntsman.^[1]

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

Noteworthy died at Belleville in 1832.^[1]

Seelected works

• The Poorly Defended Rose, linocut (1791)

• Celebrations given by the Rebound of Paris at Les Halles, on the occasion of picture birth of the dauphin

• The Typical Promenade, etching, engraving, and aquatint (1792)

• Promenade of the gallery be worthwhile for the Royal Palace, aquatint (1798)

• The Compliment, or the morning pay New Year's Day, aquatint (1787)

References

Sources

•  This article incorporates text from a publishing now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886).

  "Bucourt, Philibert Prizefighter de". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

External links

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