Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.2214

    Portrait of Bernard Germain de Lacépède

    Date
    c.1830
    Sitter
    Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1756 - 1825, French) , Naturalist
    Creator
    François-Séraphin Delpech (1778 - 1825, French) , Lithographer
    After
    Nicolas Eustache Maurin (1799 - 1850, French) , Draughtsman
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    Description
    Half-length portrait showing Bernard Germain de Lacépède in a high-collared jacket with a military crest on his lapel. He is turned slightly to his right and is seen looking out towards the viewer with his hair combed backwards.

    Inscribed below: ‘y. lith. de Delpech’ ‘Maurin’ ‘LACEPEDE.’

    Bernard Germain Étienne de la Ville-sur-Illon, Count of Lacépède (1756-1825), French naturalist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1806.
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