Edmé-Louis Daubenton

See also: Daubenton

Edmé-Louis Daubenton is a Naturaliste French, born in 1732 and died in 1786. It is Buffon which engages the cousin of Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton, Edmé-Louis, to supervise the edition of the enluminées Planches , complement illustrated with its Natural history .

They start to appear in 1765 and will count 1 008 boards, all engraved by François-Nicolas Trip hammer (1731-towards 1790) and painted with the hand. The Parisian editor Panckoucke carries out between 1765 and 1783 a version without text. More than 80 artists take part in the realization of original paintings.

973 boards relate to the Oiseau X, the others illustrate especially butterflies but also of others Insecte S, corals… the illustrations are very not successful but allow however a rather good déterminantion of the illustrated species. Some of them are extinct today.

As Buffon did not follow the system of nomenclature developped at the point by Carl von Linné, should be awaited 1783 so that Pieter Boddaert (1730-1796) publishes a table of the correspondence with their binomial linéen.

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