Philibert-Louis Debucourt

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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.{{harvnb|Bryan|1886}} He became the leading maker of multi-plate colour prints, combining washes of aquatint with line-engraving.{{cite web|title=The public promenade|url=http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/276.2011/|publisher=Art Gallery of New South Wales|access-date=22 October 2012}} He used a number of different techniques, but most involved three colour plates, and a fourth key plate, outlining the design in black.{{cite book|last=Griffiths|first=Antony|title=Prints and Printmaking: An Introduction to the History and Techniques|year=1996|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520207141|pages=198|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nbxFOR8ujlYC&pg=PA119}}

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.{{cite book|page=181 |last=Taws|first=Richard|title=The Politics of the Provisional: Art and Ephemera in Revolutionary France |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_UYEVprn1oYC&pg=PA181|access-date=2014-07-01 |year=2013|publisher=Penn State Press|isbn=978-0-271-06189-4}}

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.

Philibert-Louis Debucourt, La Rose mal defendue, 1791, NGA 2898.jpg|The Poorly Defended Rose, intaglio (1791)

P1160512 Carnavalet LP Debucourt Halles 1782 P.1930 rwk.jpg|''Celebrations given by the City of Paris at Les Halles, on the occasion of the birth of the dauphin

Philibert-Louis Debucourt - The Public Promenade (La Promenade Publique).jpg|The Public Promenade, etching, engraving, and aquatint (1792)

Philibert-Louis Debucourt - Promenade de la galerie du Palais-Royal.jpg|Promenade of the gallery of the Royal Palace, aquatint (1798)

Debucourt õnnitlus.jpg|The Compliment, or the morning of New Year's Day, aquatint (1787)

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• [http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/94303/rec/1 Prints & People: A Social History of Printed Pictures], an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Philibert-Louis Debucourt (see index)
• [https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_results.aspx?objectId=1400623&partId=1&searchText=debucourt&fromADBC=ad&toADBC=ad&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&numPages=10¤tPage=1&queryAll=People%2f!!%2fOR%2f!!%2f127436%2f!%2f127436-2-60%2f!%2fPrint+made+by+Philibert+Louis+Debucourt%2f!%2f%2f!!%2f%2f!!!%2f&allCurrentPage=1 Prints by Debourcourt in the British Museum]

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