Portrait of Claude Gros de Boze
Date
1753
Sitter
Claude Gros de Boze (1680 - 1753) , Scholar
Creator
Nicolas-Gabriel Dupuis (1698, French) , Engraver
After
Jean Chevalier (1720, French) , Painter
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (plate): 148mm
width (plate): 111mm
height (print): 156mm
width (print): 111mm
height (paper support): 224mm
width (paper support): 150mm
width (plate): 111mm
height (print): 156mm
width (print): 111mm
height (paper support): 224mm
width (paper support): 150mm
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Claude Gros de Boze in three-quarter profile to the left as viewed. He wears shoulder-length wig and is dressed in collarless jacket with cape draped over right shoulder. A book case can be seen in the background, left hand side as viewed. Oval in a rectangular frame.
Inscribed ‘Chevalier pinx N.Dupuis sculp CLAUDE GROS DE BOZE, de l’Aad. Des Belles lettres et Inscript. &c. del’Acad. Francoise. Garde des Med. Du Cab. Du Roy. Nè à Lyon le. 28. Janv. 1680. Mort à Paris le 10 7bre 1753. Suite d’Odieuvre cul de sac des vignes’ and pencilled ’Elec 1749’.
Claude Gros de Boze was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1749.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.4
Inscribed ‘Chevalier pinx N.Dupuis sculp CLAUDE GROS DE BOZE, de l’Aad. Des Belles lettres et Inscript. &c. del’Acad. Francoise. Garde des Med. Du Cab. Du Roy. Nè à Lyon le. 28. Janv. 1680. Mort à Paris le 10 7bre 1753. Suite d’Odieuvre cul de sac des vignes’ and pencilled ’Elec 1749’.
Claude Gros de Boze was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1749.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.4
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