Jean-Baptiste, an eminent naturalist and delineator of animals, born at Rochefort in 1759, died in 1800. He introduced a new era in the art of depicting animals, and acquired great celebrity by the illustrations furnished for several well-known works on subjects of natural history. His first folio, Histoire Naturelle des Singes et des Makiis, &c., is a beautiful and valuable work; but his Histoire des Colibris, des Oiseaux-mouches, des Jacamar et des Promerops, published in folio at Paris in 1802, is superb, and is also remarkable for the masterly style of the diagnosis and descriptions.