Jean-Baptiste Audebert

He studied painting and drawing at Paris, and gained reputation as a miniature-painter.

Employed in preparing plates for the Histoire des cloportes of Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, he acquired a taste for natural history.

His first original work, Histoire naturelle des singes appeared in 1800, illustrated by sixty-two folio plates, drawn and engraved by himself.

[2] Audebert died in Paris, leaving complete materials for another work, Histoire des colibris, oiseaux-mouches, jacamars et promerops, which was published in 1802.

The last two works also appeared together in two volumes, Oiseaux dorés, ou à reflets métalliques (1801-1802),[1] written with his friend Louis Pierre Vieillot.