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.190 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.002 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.006 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.024 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.109 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.125 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.128 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.138 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.017 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.050 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.055 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.058 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.086 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.129 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.141 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.145 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.068 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.075 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.084 1766
- Natural history of Saint Domingue Pl.081 1766