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Last Name Swebach Desfontaines

Given Name François-Louis

alt. Names F.-L. S. D. ; François-Louis Fontaine ;

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Children painter and engraver Jacques-François-Joseph Swebach de Fontaine (1769-1823)

Year born 1749 c. in Toul near Metz

Year died 1793

Place of death Paris ?

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Country of Activity France

Worked for mineralogist Jean Baptiste Louis Romé de l'Isle (1736-1790) ; J. F. Gautier d'Agoty: Hist nat. min (1781-3) ; Johann Christian Gerning ; Guillaume Antoine Olivier (1756-1814) ; Jacques-Louis-Florentin Engramelle (1734-1814) ; 448 crystal models for de l'Isle ; Desfontaines: Manuel Cristallographe (1792) ;

Patronage Duke d'Orléans Louis PhilippeII ; Count of Artois (1757-1836), brother of d'Agoty's printer&later crowned CharlesX; Count Alexis Golovkin;Acad.Sci.Met

Collaborators engraver Bonvallet ; J. J. Juliett ; M Gérardin ; instrumentmaker Arnould Carangeot ; instrumentmaker Claude Lhermina ; artist Jean Fabien Gautier d'Agoty ; artist M. E. Hochecker ; artist J. J. Ernst ;

Techniques natural and landscape watercolour and engraving ; sculpturing, hand-colouring ; 448 different types of 3D terracotta crystal models ;

Sample(s) www.minrec.org/artwork.asp?cat=1&artistid=47 ; www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/community/library/blog/2012/01/20 ;

Archival sources British Museum, Natural History Museum London ; Tylers Museum Haarlem ; School of Mines in St.-Étienne ;

Published sources AKL ; Obit.by son de Fontaine; C. Schuh: Mineralogy 2005 ; W. E. Wilson: Mineralogical Record 25 (1994): 127 ; Mineralogical Record 26 (1995): 67 & 71 ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ## 1300 & 3011 ;

other Active in Paris.

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