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Last Name Basseporte

Given Name Madeleine Françoise °

alt. Names M. F. B. ; Madeleine / Magdaleine Françoise Basseporte

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Children

Year born 1701 in Paris

Year died 1780

Place of death Paris

Father's occupation tradesman N. N. (1675 c. -1701 after)

Relatives

Education pupil of Paul-Ponce-Antoine Robert de Seri (1686-1733) ; taught by Claude Aubriet ;

Country of Activity France

Worked for Guillaume-François Rouelle ; Bernard & Antoine de Jussieu ; Pierre-Hubert Larchevêque ; Abbé Pluche: Spectacle de la Nature (1736/80) ; Buchoz ; Henri-Louis Duhamel de Monceau: Traité des arbres fruitiers, Paris 1782 ;

Patronage king Louis XV of France; Madame de Pampadour; Gaston duc d'Orléans; Jardin du Roi 1735-74

Collaborators successor to draughtsman -> Claude Aubriet ; Philippe Leclerc ; engraver L. M. Hortemels ; engraver J. B. Guélard ; J. Mynde ; engraver -> Catherine Haussard ; -> P. L. Cor ; -> Henriquez ; -> J. F. Herisset fils ; -> Elie du Menil ; -> Charles Milsan ; -> Poletnich ; cf. http://www.worldcat.org/title/traite-des-arbres-fruitiers-contenant-leur-figure-leur-description-leur-culture-etc/oclc/6845888#details-allauthors ;

Techniques botanical and zoological painting, engraving, painting on vellum, watercolour, gouache, chalk, pastel, copperplate engraving

Sample(s) http://plantillustrations.org/artist.php?id_artist=1660&mobile=0 ;

Archival sources Académie des Sciences ; Bibl. Nat. Paris; Mus. d'Hist. Naturelle ; Brit.Mus.Nat.Hist. ;

Published sources Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966; Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ; AKL 7 1993: 396 ; ThB 3 1909 ; Luc Vezin: Artistes Jardin Plantes (1990: 27-8) ; Pinault 1991: 23f., 110, 241 ; Pinault et al. 1984: 53 ; Wheeler 2003: 16; Chansigaud: Hist. ill. nat. 2009: 59 ;

other 1735 king's miniature painter; peintre du Jardin du Roi 1741-80 Vélins du Roi, Paris; taught art to daughters of Louis XV.

Further archival source: https://www.pirages.com/pages/books/ST11764/henri-louis-duhamel-du-monceau/traite-des-arbres-fruitiers ;

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