The New International Encyclopædia/Audebert, Jean Baptiste

AUDEBERT, od'bar', Jean Baptiste (1759-1800). A French naturalist and painter, born in Rochefort. In Paris he soon won success as a miniature painter. His love of natural history and his skill in painting birds and animals secured him employment in this field. For the purpose of making sketches he visited Holland and England in 1800. That year he produced his Histoire naturelle des singes (Natural History of Monkeys), a large folio, with 63 colored plates, remarkable for their truth and beauty. After his death two more volumes appeared, which were even more excellent than the first. They were his books on humming-birds (1802), and on woodpeckers and birds of paradise (1803).