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Philibert-Louis Debucourt, (13 February 1755 – 22 September 1832) was a French painter and engraver.

Life

Debucourt, was born in Paris in 1755, and became a pupil of Vien. He executed a few plates in mezzotint, such as the Heureuse famille, the Benediction de 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 of aquatint with line-engraving.[2] He used a number of different techniques, but most involved three colour plates, and a fourth key plate, outlining the design in black.[3]

Debucourt's father-in-law was the sculptor Louis-Philippe Mouchy. In the marriage contract Mouchy generously offered to provide a three-room apartment at the Louvre, where Debucourt lived for twelve and a half years. The address of this apartment is often given on his prints.[4] Some of his work was satirical, such as La promenade publique, an aquatint of 1792 showing a crowd in the gardens the Palais-Royal.[2] As well as work from his own designs, he made aquatints after Carle Vernet, including the Horse Frightened by a Lion, the Horse Frightened by Lightning and the Strayed Huntsman.[1]

Debucourt was assisted for some years by his pupil and nephew, Jean-Pierre-Marie Jazet. He died at Belleville in 1832.[1]

References

Sources

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Bucourt, Philibert Louis 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

• Prints & People: A Social History of Printed Pictures, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Philibert-Louis Debucourt (see index)
• Prints by Debourcourt in the British Museum

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[fr] Philibert-Louis Debucourt

Philibert-Louis Debucourt[2], né le 13 février 1755 à Paris et mort le 22 septembre 1832 à Belleville, est un peintre et graveur français, connu pour ses scènes de genre.

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[it] Philibert-Louis Debucourt

Philibert-Louis Debucourt (Parigi, 1755 – Belleville, 1832) è stato un pittore e incisore francese.

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