Pierre Jean François Turpin
Pierre Jean François Turpin (1775-1840) was a Botaniste and illustrator French. He is regarded as one of the largest botanical illustrators of the Napoleonean time. Although it started a formation in the Art schools, Turpin, as an artist, was largely autodidact.
In 1794, then member of the French Army and based with Haiti, Turpin meets the botanist Pierre-Antoine Poiteau (1766-1854) with it will contribute throughout his career. Thanks to Poiteau, he learns botany and carries out many drawings which will become the base of thorough studies on their return in France. They described approximately 800 species of plants of the Haitian flora.
Turpin is at the origin of most beautiful the Aquarelle S and existing illustrations of plants. It brought not only its talent to Poiteau, but also to Poiret or Humboldt.
Some works to which it contributed
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Icons selectae plantarum of Benjamin Delessert (1773-1784).
- Treated fruit trees of Henri Louis Duhamel of the Heap (1700-1782)
- Plants équinoxales of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) and of Aime Bonpland (1773-1858)
- Lessons of flora: complete course of botany of Jean Louis Marie Poiret (1755-1834)
References
- Biography of Pierre Turpin
- Turpin and Poiteau
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