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Paul Louis Oudart was a 19th-century French scientific illustrator and painter.

He is known for being the illustrator of Vieillot's Gallerie des Oiseaux, and one of the illustrators of Freycinet's Voyage Autour du Monde. He also illustrated works by Sclater, Webb, Des Murs, and others.

Oudart is credited with describing the Tenerife lizard Gallotia galloti, with a plate in Reptiles de Iles Canaries by Webb, Berthelot, and Gervais.

Personal life


Oudart married Jeanne Alexandrine Hénoeque, with whom he had at least one son, named August Horace Oudart.

In 1819, his address was given as no. 4 rue Contrescarpe-Dauphine, and in 1831 he is recorded as living and working at 30 rue Saint-André-des-Arcs in Paris.

He died aged 64, in his home at No. 43 rue Dareau in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, on the evening before 20th May 1860.

Career
Oudart studied under the floral painter Gerard van Spaendonck. In 1819, he exhibited two pieces at the Paris Salon: "Le Coucou Piyae du Brésil, et le Geai bleu de l’Amerique Septentrionale" and "La Perruche de Pennant de la Nouvelle-Hollande".

The 1831 Dictionnaire des artistes, along with a list of his published and exhibited works, noted that Oudart gave "private lessons in watercolor painting, flowers, animals, and natural history in general, at home and outside".

In the late 1840s, in De Murs' Iconographie ornithologique, Oudart is credited as Peintre attaché au Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Paris.

He was one of the artists commissioned by Philip Lutley Sclater to produce illustrations for The Ibis from the journal's founding in 1859.

As primary or sole illustrator
1823. Louis Pierre Vieillot. Ornithologie Française.

1825, 1834. L. P. Vieillot; M. P. Oudart.Galerie des oiseaux. Plates drawn by Oudart and lithographed by C. de Last, C. Motte, and R. des Marais. Approx. 300 plates. The 1825 edition is coloured, and 1834 is monochrome.

1826. Desmarest. Œuvre complètes de Buffon, avec les description anatomique de Daubenton, new edition, vol. 4, Birds.

1845–1849. O. des Murs; Oudart. Iconographie ornithologique … 72 plates, 48 by Oudart, originally issued in 12 livraisons of 6 each.Table of illustrations. Oudart is credited on the title page, plates are signed as being painted and lithographed (pinxt. et lith.) by either him (pl. 25–72) or by Lucien Alphonse Prévost (pl. 1–24).

1855. d'Orbigny & Gente. Tableau chronologique des divers terrains …

1857. Philip Lutley Sclater Monograph of Calliste. 45 plates, illustrated by Oudart ("Oudart del." on the pages), lithographed variously by three lithographers: Becquet freres, Lemercier, and Geny Gros.

1857–1858. Charles Lucien Bonaparte. Iconographie des pigeons … 140 plates.

As contributor
1824. Louis de Freycinet. Voyage autour du monde … de l'Uranie et la Physicienne … Oudart contributed twenty-nine of the zoological plates in Freycinet's Voyage, the accompanying zoological text was written by Quoy and Gaimard.

1831–1835. Bory de St Vincent et al. Expédition Scientifique de Morée [Greece] ... Atlas. Along with other artists such as J. G. Prêtre and E. Guérin, Oudart contributed illustrations of minerals and animals. (E.g. Geologie pl. X, Zoologie pl. X.) Specifically the lizards, snakes, and molluscs.

1835. René Lesson. Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis… 40 illustrations predominately by Jean-Gabriel Prêtre, with 11 by Oudart (plate numbers,  (sculptit),  ,  , 19, 29–34, 38).

1836–1844. Various authors, Zoologie des Iles Canarienne, volume 2 part 2 of Barker-Webb and Berthelot Histoire naturelle des Iles Canaries (in 3 volumes). Oudart drew eleven plates of fishes, one of reptiles; he also sculpted two plates of molluscs drawn by Terver. Other zoological illustrations were contributed by E. Travies, Vaillant, Alcide d'Orbigny, and Acarie Baron.

1841–1852. A.-N. Vaillant. Voyage de la Bonite: Zoologie Atlas. Crustaceans, fishes, reptiles, and amphibians drawn by Oudart, 20 plates total. Birds by Prévost (Florent or Alphonse?), mammals by Jean-Baptiste Meunier, anatomy by Werner, molluscs by various (incl. A. J. B Vaillant (Q56491228)).

1842–1853. d'Urville. Voyage au pole sud et dans l'Océanie … Mammals by Jacques Christophe Werner; 37 plates of birds, 29 by Oudart (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12bis, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24bis, 25bis, 28, 29, 30, 31, 31bis, 33), 4 by Prévost (23, 26, 27, 32), and 4 by Werner (12, 18, 24, 25); 7 plates of lizards, 3 of snakes, 1 of frogs, and 5 of fishes, by Oudart; beetles by E. Blanchard and M'me Bury née de Bridieu ; Lepidoptera and Orthoptera by Blanchard; crustaceans by Borromée (except pl. 6, 8 by Oudart and 9 by Blanchard); molluscs by Oudart (pl. 5, 14, 16, 17, 21, 24, 27, 28), H. Jacquinot & Oudart (pl. 3, 8, 19, 22, 23, 25), Blanchard père (pl. 26, 29), and Borromée.

1855–1857. Francis de Castelnau. (Animeaux Nouveau or Rares, recueillis pendant) l'Expédition dans les parties centrales de l’Amérique du Sud. By Oudart: 22 plates of molluscs and zoophytes; myriapodes pl. 5, 6; 20 plates of birds; 48 of 50 plates of fishes.

1846. Abel Aubert Dupetit-Thouars. Voyage autour du monde sur la frégate la Vénus, pendant les années 1836–1839, publié par ordre du roi, sous les auspices du ministre de la marine. Atlas de Zoologie. Gide et Cie, Paris. 79 plates. Oudart painted the 10 Birds and 3 Reptiles plates, with one of the molluscs and several of the zoophytes. (Mammals by Werner. Fishes by Werner and by Borromée. Molluscs by M'lle J. Alberty, Borromée, M'lle V. Gottis, M'lle A. Alberti, M'lle J. Alberti [sic], Oudart (pl. 15), M'me Nouvian. Zoophytes by Borromée with Oudart, Vaillant, and M'lle C'ce Borromée.)

1854. Claude Gay: Atlas … de Chile. Oudart contributed 5 (of 13) bird plates, 4 (of 7) reptile and amphibian, all 17 of fishes.

As minor contributor
1859. James Livingston Thomson. Arcana naturæ. Thirteen plates, primarily by Hercule Nicolet. Plates XII and XIII by Edwin Sheppard (Q47035191). Plate IV, Salle's quail (Cyrtonyx sallei), drawn by Oudart and coloured by "M'me V'e Vaillant".

1863. Alfred Malherbe, Monographie des Picidées… (Monograph of the woodpeckers). Plates 1–15 by Delahaye (Q52196156), 16–25 by Oudart, 26–121 by Mesnel (Q47008355).

Scholarly articles
1844 [1849]. "Scops rutilus", plate XXII for Pucheran "Considérations Générales sur le Oiseaux de Proie Nocturnes". (now classified as Otus rutilus)

1850 "Tamatin à barbe blanche" (white-bearded tamatin) in Frédéric de Lafresnaye, "Description et figure d’une nouvelle espèce de Barbacou." (Monasa mystacalis Lafresn. 1850, Malacoptila mystacalis (Lafresn. 1850).)