Philibert-Louis Debucourt

Training under Joseph-Marie Vien is recorded. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is painting and engraving. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait and genre art. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Work by Philibert-Louis Debucourt is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Victoria, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Art Museum of Estonia, Art Institute of Chicago and Finnish National Gallery.

• Illustration — Passez Payez, aquatint from a Carle Vernet portrait (1818), now at the University of Michigan Museum of Art Debucourt was born in Paris in 1755, and became a pupil of Joseph-Marie Vien. He executed a few plates in mezzotint, such as the Heureuse famille, the Benediction de la mariée, and the Cruche cassée, after his own designs. Most of his work was, however, in aquatint. He became the leading maker of multi-plate colour prints, combining washes of aquatint with line-engraving. He used a number of different techniques, but most involved three colour plates, and a fourth key plate, outlining the design in black. Debucourt's father-in-law was the sculptor Louis-Philippe Mouchy. In the marriage contract Mouchy generously offered to provide a three-room apartment at the Louvre, where Debucourt lived for twelve and a half years. The address of this apartment is often given on his prints. Some of his work was satirical, such as La promenade publique, an aquatint of 1792 showing a crowd in the gardens the Palais-Royal. As well as work from his own designs, he made aquatints after Carle Vernet, including the Horse Frightened by a Lion, the Horse Frightened by Lightning and the Strayed Huntsman. Debucourt was assisted for some years by his pupil and nephew, Jean-Pierre-Marie Jazet. He died at Belleville in 1832.

• Illustration — The Poorly Defended Rose, intaglio (1791) • Illustration — Celebrations given by the City of Paris at Les Halles, on the occasion of the birth of the dauphin • Illustration — The Public Promenade, etching, engraving, and aquatint (1792) • Illustration — Promenade of the gallery of the Royal Palace, aquatint (1798) • Illustration — The Compliment, or the morning of New Year's Day, aquatint (1787)

The authorities additionally record the headings Louis Philibert Debucourt, Louis-Philibert Debucourt, Louis-Philibert De Bucourt, Philibert Louis Debucourt and P.-L. His recorded language was French. Other recorded relations include Louis-Philippe Mouchy.