Portrait of Georges-Frédéric Cuvier
Date
1826
Sitter
Frederic Cuvier (1773 - 1838, French) , Zoologist
Creator
Ambroise Tardieu (1788 - 1841, French) , Printmaker
Object type
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 212mm
width (print): 146mm
height (paper support): 226mm
width (paper support): 152mm
width (paper support): 153mm
width (print): 146mm
height (paper support): 226mm
width (paper support): 152mm
width (paper support): 153mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Georges-Frédéric Cuvier in three-quarter profile to the right as viewed. He wears high-collared double-breasted jacket with shirt and cravat. In an oval frame.
Inscribed ‘Dessiné d’aprés nature en 1826, et Gravé par Ambroise Tardieu. G.FRÉDÉRIC CUVIER (Zoologiste), Né à Montbéliard (Dépt. du Doubs) le 27 Juin 1773.’ And pencilled ‘Born 1773 elected 1835 foreign member.’
Georges-Frédéric Cuvier (1773-1838) was a French zoologist he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1835.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.11.
Inscribed ‘Dessiné d’aprés nature en 1826, et Gravé par Ambroise Tardieu. G.FRÉDÉRIC CUVIER (Zoologiste), Né à Montbéliard (Dépt. du Doubs) le 27 Juin 1773.’ And pencilled ‘Born 1773 elected 1835 foreign member.’
Georges-Frédéric Cuvier (1773-1838) was a French zoologist he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1835.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.11.
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