Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.22010

    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
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 285mm
    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.
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