Portrait of Antoine Lavoisier
Date
c.1835
Sitter
Antoine Lavoisier (1743 - 1764, French) , Chemist
Creator
Charles Eden Wagstaff (British) , Engraver
After
Jacques-Louis David (1748 - 1825, French) , Painter
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 285mm
width (print): 195mm
width (print): 195mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait showing Antoine Lavoisier looking upwards and towards his right. He is seen in a dark jacket and white cravat and presented against a dark background. Detail reproduced from Jacques-Louis David's Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his Wife (1788) now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. In the original painting Lavoisier is seated and looking up towards his wife and collaborator, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier.
'Engraved by C.E.Wagstaff.’ ‘LAVOISIER./From the original Picture by David/in a Private Collection at Paris./Under the Superintendance of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge./London, Published by Charles Knight, Ludgate Street.'
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (1743-1794), French chemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1788.
'Engraved by C.E.Wagstaff.’ ‘LAVOISIER./From the original Picture by David/in a Private Collection at Paris./Under the Superintendance of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge./London, Published by Charles Knight, Ludgate Street.'
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (1743-1794), French chemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1788.