Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13456

    Portrait of Alfred Louis Olivier Des Cloizeaux

    Date
    ca.1880s
    Sitter
    Alfred Louis Olivier Des Cloizeaux (1817 - 1897, French) , Crystallographer
    Creator
    P. Dujardin (1859, French) , Printmaker
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 201mm
    width (print): 150mm
    height (paper support): 228mm
    width (paper support): 152mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Alfred Louis Olivier Des Cloizeaux, he wears a fine jacket with braid detail and decorated with four medals on his left breast and one on a ribbon around his neck. Oval in a rectangular frame.

    Facsimile signature and inscribed ‘Héliog. Dujardin’ and pencilled ‘1875’.

    Alfred Louis Olivier Des Cloizeaux (1817-1897) was a French mineralogist and crystallographer; he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1875.

    Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.12.
    Associated place
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