Nicolas Colibert
Illustration — Religion of negroes, engraving, Paris, 1795, made to celebrate the first abolition of slavery on 4 February 1794. Nicolas Colibert (1750–1806) was a French painter and engraver. He was born in Paris.
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Nicolas Colibert
Nicolas Colibert · This file comes from Gallica Digital Library and is available under the digital ID btv1b6950474x/f1 · Public domain
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- 1750 · Paris.
- Died
- 1806 · London.
- Nationality
- France
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- painter · printmaker · artist · copper engraver · draftsperson
- Fields
- visual arts
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Religion of negroes, engraving, Paris, 1795, made to celebrate the first abolition of slavery on 4 February 1794. Nicolas Colibert (1750–1806) was a French painter and engraver. He was born in Paris.
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He executed in the dotted style some landscapes after Casanova, and about 1782 came to London, where he produced two oval plates of 'Pity' and 'Youth,' and two subjects from 'Evelina.' During the Revolution he returned to Paris and engraved several of Schall's designs for 'Les Amours de Psyche et de Cupidon,' published in 1791, and some illustrations after Monsiau to the poem 'La Mort d'Abel,' published in 1793. Colibert died in London in 1806. • Illustration — Arrival of Europeans in Africa
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Arrival of Europeans in Africa, by Nicolas Colibert (1750 - after 1806) Engraving after a drawing by Pierre Fréret, Paris, 1795. made to celebrate the first abolition of slavery on 4 February 1794 (16 Pluviôse an II) On display at the Musée de la Compagnie des Indes in Port-Louis, accession number AF 6758
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La Vue d'une des Portes de Cologne. The plate is part of J. B. P. Le Brun's 'Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, dessins, estampes (...) qui composoient le Cabinet de feu M. Poullain' (Paris, 1780)
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1750
Nicolas Colibert was born in 1750 at Paris.
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Nicolas Colibert died in 1806 at London.
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- Colibert, Nicolas, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
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Colibert, Nicolas, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
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