Philibert-louis debucourt biography of mahatma gandhi

French painter

Philibert-Louis Debucourt (13 February 1755 – 22 September 1832) was a French painter and engraver.

Life

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.^[1] He became the leading maker of multi-plate colour prints, combining washes of aquatint with line-engraving.^[2] He used a number of different techniques, but most involved three colour plates, and a fourth key plate, outlining the design in black.^[3]

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.^&#