René de Rabié
Pioneering Caribbean naturalist and illustrator
René-Gabriel Rabié, a member of a French family of navigators, lived in the current Haiti and in the Caribbean for a long time. During these years he worked as an architect, cartographer, and naturalist. His series of excellent illustrations of plants and animals which includes different species of butterflies prior to their official discovery and large numbers of birds, served as a detailed study of diverse birdlife for the ornithologists in the 18th and 19th centuries. About 1768 he was part of some of the expeditions to Mexico extensively documenting the life and singularities of the viceregal´s great metropolis.
Artworks by this artist (193 total)
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.137 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.160 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.008 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.010 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.018 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.128 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.144 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.145 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.164 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.174 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.183 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.189 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.165 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.087 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.073 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.067 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.014 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.002 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.030 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.032 1766