Madame du Barry (?) and two servants demonstrate an experiment on electricity to a lady seated in a chair attended by two men. Engraving by J,F. Beauvarlet after C.A. Vanloo, ca. 1770 (?).

  • Vanloo, Charles Amédée Philippe, 1719-1795.
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1770-1779
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575778i
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view Madame du Barry (?) and two servants demonstrate an experiment on electricity to a lady seated in a chair attended by two men. Engraving by J,F. Beauvarlet after C.A. Vanloo, ca. 1770 (?).

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Madame du Barry (?) and two servants demonstrate an experiment on electricity to a lady seated in a chair attended by two men. Engraving by J,F. Beauvarlet after C.A. Vanloo, ca. 1770 (?). Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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A detailed desecription of the electrostatic experiment and of the participants is given on the website of the National Museum of American History, though without reference to primary sources. The print is not mentioned in Michael Brian Schiffer, Draw the lightning down, Berkeley 2003, or in Heiko Weber, Die Elektrisiermaschinen im 18. Jahrhundert, Berlin 2011

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Paris (no. 64 rue St. Jacques) : Mme. Vve. Turgis

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1 print : engraving ; image 51.3 x 39.7 cm

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L'expérience sur l'électricité

References note

Abbé Dairaine, 'Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Jacques-Firmin Beauvarlet, précédé d'une notice sur sa vie et ses ouvrages', Mémoires de la Société impériale d'émulation d'Abbeville, Abbeville 1860, no. 90
Marcel Roux, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du dix-huitième siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome II, Paris 1933, p. 260, no. 133 ("[L'expérience sur l'electricité, d'après Amédée P. Vanloo.] Dairaine, no. 90. Pièce non terminée par Beauvarlet. Le graveur possédait l'original (no. 31 du catalogue de sa vente.)")

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Wellcome Collection 575778i

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