Jacques de Sève
Jacques de Sève (fl. 1742 – 1788) was a French illustrator.
Career
De Sève was commissioned by
anatomical representations or show the animals against landscape backgrounds. They were engraved by Louis Le Grand
.
His son, Jacques Eustache also worked as an artist and engraver, contributing to the later Suites à Buffon. Together father and son produced thousands of illustrations.
References
- Benezit, Emmanuel (1911–1923). Dictionnaire de Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, vol. 12, p. 713
External links
Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Buffon, George Louis Leclerc, Comte de".
- The Buffon project: L'histoire naturelle online (in French), edited by a history of science labs from CNRS (2006).
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