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Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis

Print
1741 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Jean Daullé (engraver)
Robert Levrac-Tournières (artist)
Place of origin
France (printed)

Print, portrait of a man, half-length, facing slightly left, standing behind an arcade with globe and chart, and wearing a fur coat and hat.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Portraits
Object type
Print
TitlePierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Engraving
Brief description
Print, portrait of Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, engraving by Jean Daullé after Robert Levrac-Tournières, 1741.
Physical description
Print, portrait of a man, half-length, facing slightly left, standing behind an arcade with globe and chart, and wearing a fur coat and hat.
Dimensions
  • Height: 51.8cm
  • Width: 35.6cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1960: Volume 2, Edgar Seligman Gift. London: HMSO, 1966.
Style
French School
Marks and inscriptions
'Ce Globe…de l’éclairer. Par M de Voltaire / Peint part R. Tourniere Gravé par J. Daullé. 1741.' (Lettered with name of sitter, 4 lines of verse)
Credit line
Given by Edgar Seligman
Subjects depicted
Astronomer
Mathematician
Physicist
Globe
Fur
Pierre-Louis Moreau De Maupertuis
Bibliographic references
  • Bibliothèque National. Inventaire du Fonds Français. Paris: M. le Garrec, 1930.
  • Delignières, Émile. Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre gravé de Jean Daullé d'Abbeville : précédé d'une notice sur sa vie et ses ouvrages. Abbeville : Imprimerie Briez, C. Paillart et Retaux, 1872. xxvii, 138 p.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1960: Volume 2, Edgar Seligman Gift. London: HMSO, 1966.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.323-1960

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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