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Claude Aubriet (c. 1665 or 1651 – 3 December 1742) was a French

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and

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Biography

Aubriet was born in

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or in Moncetz. He was a

botanical illustrator Botanical illustration is the art of depicting the form, color, and details of plant species, frequently in watercolor paintings. They must be scientifically accurate but often also have an artistic component and may be printed with a botanical ...

at the Jardin du Roi in Paris. There

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (5 June 165628 December 1708) was a French botanist, notable as the first to make a clear definition of the concept of genus for plants. Botanist Charles Plumier was his pupil and accompanied him on his voyages. Lif ...

(1656–1708) noticed his work and commissioned him as illustrator of his 1694 ''Elemens de Botanique''. From 1700 to 1702 he accompanied Tournefort and

Andreas von Gundelsheimer Andreas von Gundelsheimer (ca. 1668 – 17 June 1715) was a German physician and botanist born in Feuchtwangen. He obtained his medical doctorate in Altdorf bei Nürnberg, afterwards spending several years working in Venice. Later in Paris he mad ...

on an expedition to the Middle East. There he made drawings of historical sites and the region's flora. After his return to Paris, Aubriet continued his work with the botanists at the Jardin du Roi, contributing to '' Les Vélins du Roi''. In 1707 Aubriet succeeded Jean Joubert (1643–1707) as the royal botanical painter. He retired in 1735, and was succeeded by

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(1701–1780), a student of his and a former collaborator. He died in Paris. Botanist

Michel Adanson Michel Adanson (7 April 17273 August 1806) was an 18th-century French botanist and naturalist who traveled to Senegal to study flora and fauna. He proposed a "natural system" of taxonomy distinct from the binomial system forwarded by Linnaeus. ...

named the

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'' Aubrieta'' in his honour.

Selected works

Aubriet illustrated two books which were landmarks in the

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: * Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, ''Institutiones rei herbariae'' See for example volume 2 of the third edition (with additions by

Antoine de Jussieu Antoine de Jussieu (6 July 168622 April 1758) was a French naturalist, botanist, and physician. Jussieu was born in Lyon, the son of Christophe de Jussieu (or Dejussieu), an apothecary of some repute, who published a ''Nouveau traité de la ...

) of th
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Paris. Imprimerie Royale : 1719 *

Sébastien Vaillant Sébastien Vaillant (May 26, 1669 – May 20, 1722) was French botanist who was born at Vigny in present-day Val d'Oise. Early years Vaillant went to school at the age of four and by the age of five, he was collecting plants and transplantin ...

, . Leyde and Amsterdam. Jean & Herman Verbeek and Balthazar Lakeman : 1727. We also have a number of collections of his drawings: * ''Recueil de plantes, fleurs, fruits, oiseaux, insectes et coquillages, etc. peint en miniature sur vélin'' (Collection of plants, flowers, fruits, birds, insects and shellfish, etc., painted in miniature on

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) * ''Papillons plantes et fleurs'' (Butterflies plants and flowers) * ''Plantes peintes à la gouache'' (Plants painted in

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) * ''Recueil d'oiseaux'' (Collection of birds) * ''Collection d' aquarelles'', * ''Plantes peintes en miniature''.

Bibliography

* * Jean-Louis De Sloover et Anne-Marie Bogaert-Damin (1999). ''Les Muscinées du XVIe au XIXe siècle dans les collections de la Bibliothèque universitaire Moretus Plantin'', Namur, Presses universitaires de Namur, * Aline Hamonou-Mahieu, ''Claude Aubriet, artiste naturaliste des

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'', CTHS Sciences

References

* ''Parts of this article are based on a translation of an article from the

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