Portrait of Jean Louis Petit
Date
1742
Sitter
Jean Louis Petit (1674 - 1750, French) , Surgeon
Creator
Jean Joseph Balechou (1719, French) , Engraver
After
Louis Vigée (1715 - 1767, French) , Portraitist
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 200mm
width (print): 152mm
height (paper support): 220mm
width (paper support): 152mm
width (print): 152mm
height (paper support): 220mm
width (paper support): 152mm
Description
Half-length portrait of Jean Louis Petit, turned to the right as viewed and looking out to viewer. He wears long wig, collarless jacket, waistcoat and neck tie. In an oval frame on a pedestal.
Inscribed ‘Vigé pinxit. Baléchou Sculp. JEANLOUIS PETIT. Chirurgien juré à Paris, de l’Académie Royle des Sciences, et de la Société Royle de Londres; Censeur et Démonstratr Rol Ancien Prevôt de St. Côme, ancient Directr et Secretre de l’Académie Royale de Chirurgie. C.F.Lesne Chirurg. Juré à Paris, et son Eleve, lui a dédié ce Portrait. 1742. AParis chez Odieuvre Md. Déstampes rue danjou la dermiere P Cochere a gauche entrantpar la rue Dauphine, C.P.R’ and pencilled ‘1729’.
Jean Louis Petit was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1729.
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 ‘Vigé pinxit. Baléchou Sculp. JEANLOUIS PETIT. Chirurgien juré à Paris, de l’Académie Royle des Sciences, et de la Société Royle de Londres; Censeur et Démonstratr Rol Ancien Prevôt de St. Côme, ancient Directr et Secretre de l’Académie Royale de Chirurgie. C.F.Lesne Chirurg. Juré à Paris, et son Eleve, lui a dédié ce Portrait. 1742. AParis chez Odieuvre Md. Déstampes rue danjou la dermiere P Cochere a gauche entrantpar la rue Dauphine, C.P.R’ and pencilled ‘1729’.
Jean Louis Petit was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1729.
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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