Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.2223

    Portrait of Joseph-Louis Lagrange

    Date
    1842
    Sitter
    Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736 - 1813, Italian) , Mathematician
    Creator
    Augustine Fauchery (1803, French) , Lithographer
    After
    Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1754 - 1829, French) , Artist
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 110mm
    width (print): 115mm
    Subject
    Description
    Profile portrait of Joseph-Louis Lagrange facing towards the left as viewed. He is shown wearing a high collar with his hair combed backwards.

    Inscribed below: ‘Dessé par le Cher Régnault, membre de L’Institut’ ‘Lith par Mme Fauchery’ ‘Joseph Louis Lagrange./Imp. Litho. de Melle Formentin, rue des Sts. Pères, No 10.’

    Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736-1813), Italian mathematician and physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1791.
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