engraver/artist -> Nicolas Barthélemy François Dequevauviller (1745-1807/9 after)
mother: Marguerite Angélique Scolastique de Poilly from engraver family
studied printmaking techniques under his father & engr. Auguste-Gaspard-Louis Desnoyers
France
George Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788) ; Georges Léopold Chrétien Fréderick Dagobert, Baron de Cuvier (1769-1832) ; Jules Sebastian César Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) ; Joseph Paul Gaimard (1793-1858) ; A. Pauline Knip & Coenraad Jacob Temminck: Les pigeons (1808-11/38);