Portrait of Jean Baptiste Jacques Elie de Beaumont
Date
1842
Sitter
Jean Baptiste Jacques Elie de Beaumont (1732 - 1786) , Lawyer
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 145mm
width (print): 105mm
height (paper support): 227mm
width (paper support): 153mm
width (print): 105mm
height (paper support): 227mm
width (paper support): 153mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Jean Baptiste Jacques Elie de Beaumont in three-quarter profile to the left as viewed, he wears buckled wig and is dressed in cassock and bands.
Inscribed ‘ELIE DE BEAUMONT (JEAN BAPTISTE JACQUES) AVOCAT AU PARLEMENT DE PARIS. Né à Carentan en 1732 + à Paris en 1786. VIGNERES, Edr. 4 Rue du Carrousel, Paris.’
Jean Baptiste Jacques Elie de Beaumont (1732-1789) was a French lawyer, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1765.
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 ‘ELIE DE BEAUMONT (JEAN BAPTISTE JACQUES) AVOCAT AU PARLEMENT DE PARIS. Né à Carentan en 1732 + à Paris en 1786. VIGNERES, Edr. 4 Rue du Carrousel, Paris.’
Jean Baptiste Jacques Elie de Beaumont (1732-1789) was a French lawyer, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1765.
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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