Accession No

3487

Brief Description

printed broadside, portrait of chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier<br />guillotined during the French Revolution, by Levachez, 1796

Origin

Maker

Levachez

Class

prints

Earliest Date

1796

Latest Date

1796

Inscription Date

Material

paper

Dimensions

(mounted) height 534mm; breadth 332mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Inscription

‘Levachez sculp’ (bordering portrait)
‘Duplessi-Bertaux inv & del. l’An 7 de la Repub Duplessi-Bertaux aqua forti
ANTOINE LAURENT LAVOISIER
FERMIER GENERALE NE A PARIS LE 16 AOUT 1743
Juge le 16 floreal l’an 2
[long text beginning] Robespierre s’attachait ...’ (under pictures)

Description Notes

Print; black and white; portrait of Lavoisier with a depiction of his arrest and a long text in French about his life and achievements, serving as a celebration of Lavoisier; mounted.

Condition: good; complete.

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