Taphrospilus
Well-known member
Ducula zoeae (Desmarest, 1826) OD t. 40 (1826) - Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles - Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Eponym Dictionary of Birds
The Key to Scientific Names
If I read Arbre généalogique gratuit et en ligne - Geneatique.net pour rechercher vos ancêtres I can go with the dates.
Death record here p.227/276 (24. November 1819)
Did not check for birth record yet.
Nevertheless a couple of questions came up when I looked at the plate t.1-2 (1826-1830) [Zoologie Atlas pt.1] - Voyage autour du monde - Biodiversity Heritage Library and the corresponding text t.1:pt.2 (1826) [Zoologie Text] - Voyage autour du monde - Biodiversity Heritage Library
1) Was the correct author ever analysed? Desmarest or Lesson? Or what was published first?
2) Zoé or Zoë?
3) About the artist. Here Dictionnaire des Artistes de l'ecole francaise au 19e siecle. Peinture sculpture ... et composition musicale and many other places it is written that he was born 1779 and he died vers 1850 or in other sources in 1850.
But his death record (Cote V4E 687) here p. 4/12 is 9. May 1864 6. Arrondisement and died eighty years old. So for me Antoine Germain Bévalet (1784–1864) is more plausible. Does anyone know his true birth date?
As well I often read that he was on board of the Voyage autour du monde, entrepris par ordre du roi. Exécuté sur les corvettes de S.M. l'Uranie et la Physicienne, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820 and Voyage autour du monde : exécuté par ordre du roi, sur la corvette de Sa Majesté, la Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824, et 1825. Is that true? Of course he illustrated some plates. Confusing for me was this one Voyage de l'Uranie, oiseaux, Cassican fluteur, White-backed magpie [picture] / Bevalet pinxt | National Library of Australia versus [t.3] (1824) [Atlas] - Voyage autour du monde - Biodiversity Heritage Library but Bévalets plate seems not been used in the atlas. More on the story see Picturing Australia (if true).
Finally not be confused with his son Louis Victor Bévalet (1808–1887) who also painted hummingbirds for Mulsant and (Verreaux).
I could not identify any bird named for him. Tornatella bevaletii Baudon, 1853 is not named for him or his son.
Cette belle espèces, que M. Lesson consacre à la mémoire d'une épouse chérie, a été découverte par lui aux environs du village de Dorery à la Nouvelle-Guinée.
The Eponym Dictionary of Birds
Zoë's Imperial Pigeon Ducula zoeae Lesson, 1826 [Alt. Banded Imperial Pigeon]
Zoë Lesson (DNF) was the first wife of the describer René Lesson (q.v.).
The Key to Scientific Names
Jeanne-Zoé Lesson née Massiou (1799-1819) first wife of French ornithologist René Lesson (Normand David in litt.) (Ducula).
If I read Arbre généalogique gratuit et en ligne - Geneatique.net pour rechercher vos ancêtres I can go with the dates.
Death record here p.227/276 (24. November 1819)
Did not check for birth record yet.
Nevertheless a couple of questions came up when I looked at the plate t.1-2 (1826-1830) [Zoologie Atlas pt.1] - Voyage autour du monde - Biodiversity Heritage Library and the corresponding text t.1:pt.2 (1826) [Zoologie Text] - Voyage autour du monde - Biodiversity Heritage Library
Cette colombe est cousacrée à la mémoire d'une épouse expirée à l'aurore de la vie.
1) Was the correct author ever analysed? Desmarest or Lesson? Or what was published first?
2) Zoé or Zoë?
3) About the artist. Here Dictionnaire des Artistes de l'ecole francaise au 19e siecle. Peinture sculpture ... et composition musicale and many other places it is written that he was born 1779 and he died vers 1850 or in other sources in 1850.
But his death record (Cote V4E 687) here p. 4/12 is 9. May 1864 6. Arrondisement and died eighty years old. So for me Antoine Germain Bévalet (1784–1864) is more plausible. Does anyone know his true birth date?
As well I often read that he was on board of the Voyage autour du monde, entrepris par ordre du roi. Exécuté sur les corvettes de S.M. l'Uranie et la Physicienne, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820 and Voyage autour du monde : exécuté par ordre du roi, sur la corvette de Sa Majesté, la Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824, et 1825. Is that true? Of course he illustrated some plates. Confusing for me was this one Voyage de l'Uranie, oiseaux, Cassican fluteur, White-backed magpie [picture] / Bevalet pinxt | National Library of Australia versus [t.3] (1824) [Atlas] - Voyage autour du monde - Biodiversity Heritage Library but Bévalets plate seems not been used in the atlas. More on the story see Picturing Australia (if true).
Finally not be confused with his son Louis Victor Bévalet (1808–1887) who also painted hummingbirds for Mulsant and (Verreaux).
I could not identify any bird named for him. Tornatella bevaletii Baudon, 1853 is not named for him or his son.
Je dédie cette coquille à mon ami Ch. Bevalet, qui m'a si souvent aidé de ses lumières, et de son expérience en géologie.