Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21109

    Portrait of Claude Louis Berthollet

    Date
    early 19th century
    Sitter
    Count Claude Louis Berthollet (1748 - 1822, French) , Chemist
    Creator
    Antoine Maurin (1793 - 1860, French) , Engraver
    François-Séraphin Delpech (1778 - 1825, French) , Lithographer
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 490mm
    width (print): 320mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Claude Louis Berthollet inclined to the right as viewed, looking over his shoulder. Dressed in a dinner jacket with natural hair.

    Inscribed: ‘Maurin. Lith de. Delpech/ BERTHOLET’ with further handwritten annotation ‘Elected 1789’.

    Claude Louis Bertholet (1748 - 1822), French chemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1789.
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