Credit: ©The Royal Society
Image number: RS.2268
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Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
Date
19th century
Sitter
Antoine Lavoisier (1743 - 1764, French) , Chemist
Creator
Charles William Sharpe (1818 - 1899, British) , Engraver
After
Jacques-Louis David (1748 - 1825, French) , Artist
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 258mm
width (print): 179mm
width (print): 179mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Half length portrait of Lavoisier, extracted or a detail from the Portrait of Antoine-Laurent and Marie-Anne Lavoisier by Jacques Louis David, 1788. Lavoisier is shown at a cloth-covered table, in the act of writing with a quill pen. His posture is looking upwards to where (in the original) his wife stood; Marie-Anne Lavoisier has been omitted from this portrait.
Inscribed above : “David pinxt. W.C.Sharpe. LAVOISIER. WILLIAM MACKENZIE GLASGOW EDINBURGH LONDON & NEW YORK”. With a printed specimen signature of Lavoisier, lower right.
Antoine Lavoisier was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1763.
Inscribed above : “David pinxt. W.C.Sharpe. LAVOISIER. WILLIAM MACKENZIE GLASGOW EDINBURGH LONDON & NEW YORK”. With a printed specimen signature of Lavoisier, lower right.
Antoine Lavoisier was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1763.
Transcription
David pinxt. W.C.Sharpe. LAVOISIER. WILLIAM MACKENZIE GLASGOW EDINBURGH LONDON & NEW YORK
Object history
Unknown provenance, not in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918).
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