Portrait of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Date
1799
Sitter
Georges Louis Leclerc, Count of Buffon (1707 - 1788, French) , Naturalist
Creator
Jean-Baptiste-Michel Dupréel (French) , Engraver
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Material
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Dimensions
height (print): 202mm
width (print): 128mm
width (print): 128mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders study of Buffon in a red coat trimmed in gold, with a lace neck-cloth and tied, powdered hair.
Frontispiece plate from the book Histoire naturelle, généralle et particuliére…Nouvelle edition, by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and C.S. Sonnini, volume 1 (Paris 1799).
The plate is inscribed below: ‘LE CLERC DE BUFFON Premier Age. Dupréel sc.’
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788), French naturalist and man of science, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1740.
Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt (1751-1812), French naturalist.
Frontispiece plate from the book Histoire naturelle, généralle et particuliére…Nouvelle edition, by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and C.S. Sonnini, volume 1 (Paris 1799).
The plate is inscribed below: ‘LE CLERC DE BUFFON Premier Age. Dupréel sc.’
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788), French naturalist and man of science, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1740.
Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt (1751-1812), French naturalist.
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