Portrait of Joseph Louis Proust
Date
early 19th century
Sitter
Joseph Louis Proust (1754 - 1826, French) , Chemist
Creator
Ambroise Tardieu (1788 - 1841, French) , Engraver
After
Manuel Albuerne (1764, Spanish) , Printmaker
Object type
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 240mm
width (print): 147mm
height (page): 295mm
width (page): 209mm
width (print): 147mm
height (page): 295mm
width (page): 209mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of Joseph Louis Proust, in left profile. He wears high collared jacket with shoulder length hair, tied back. In an oval frame.
Inscribed ‘Dessine d’apes le portrait d’Albuerne et Grave par Ambroise Tardieu. LOUIS PROUST (Chimiste), member de l’Académie des Sciences. Né à……..(Dépt….) le…. 17..’.
Joseph Louis Proust was not a Fellow of the Royal Society, he was a French chemist best known for the law of definite proportions or Proust’s law.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.63
Inscribed ‘Dessine d’apes le portrait d’Albuerne et Grave par Ambroise Tardieu. LOUIS PROUST (Chimiste), member de l’Académie des Sciences. Né à……..(Dépt….) le…. 17..’.
Joseph Louis Proust was not a Fellow of the Royal Society, he was a French chemist best known for the law of definite proportions or Proust’s law.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.63
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