Ambroise Tardieu (2 March 1788, in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

– 17 January 1841, in Paris) was an eminent French

cartographer Cartography (; from grc, χάρτης , "papyrus, sheet of paper, map"; and , "write") is the study and practice of making and using maps. Combining science, aesthetics and technique, cartography builds on the premise that reality (or an im ...

and engraver, and is celebrated for his version of John Arrowsmith's 1806 map of the United States.

About

Tardieu's son,

Auguste Ambroise Tardieu Auguste Ambroise Tardieu (10 March 1818 – 12 January 1879) was a French medical doctor and the pre-eminent forensic medical scientist of the mid-19th century. The son of artist and mapmaker Ambroise Tardieu, he achieved his Doctorate in Medi ...

(1818–1879), was also an artist and a famous forensic medical scholar, who supplied the illustrations for Dr.

Pierre François Olive Rayer Pierre François Olive Rayer (8 March 1793 – 10 September 1867) was a French physician who was a native of Saint Sylvain. He made important contributions in the fields of pathological anatomy, physiology, comparative pathology and parasitol ...

's three-volume ''Traité des maladies des reins'' (1839–41), a treatise on diseases of the kidneys. Neither should be confused with Jean Baptiste Pierre Tardieu, an unrelated French cartographer and engraver active in the early 19th century. Tardieu came from a family boasting a number of fine engravers, and was trained from an early age by his uncle,

Pierre Alexandre Tardieu Pierre Alexandre Tardieu (1756–1844) was a French engraver. He was a member of the Institut de France, the Saint Petersburg Academy and the Academy of Milan. His students included Auguste Gaspard Louis Desnoyers. He is buried at the cimet ...

(1756–1844), a leading French engraver. Showing considerable talent in this field, Ambroise persevered and became a celebrated engraver of portraits. In addition he was appointed as geographical engraver for the French government, for which he received a small stipend. In order to eke out this meagre wage, he began to trade in prints, books and maps. He is remembered for more than 800 portraits engraved through his career, many depicting scientists of the period. Tardieu published a number of

atlas An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a bundle of maps of Earth or of a region of Earth. Atlases have traditionally been bound into book form, but today many atlases are in multimedia formats. In addition to presenting geographic ...

es, one of which appeared in 1842 and was titled ''Atlas universel de geographie, ancienne et moderne/dresse par Ambroise Tardieu pour l'intelligence de la Geographie universelle par Malte-Brun.''

References

*Bryan's Dictionary of Painters, 1903-4: 5, 152 *Biographie Universelle: 44, 874–5 *Nouvelle Biographie Générale (Hoefer) *Thieme & Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon, 1907–50: 32, 443

External links

Science and Society Picture LibraryThe Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tardieu, Ambroise Artists from Paris 1788 births 1841 deaths 19th-century engravers French engravers French cartographers