P. De La Place/ C. N. Cochin filius.

Previous title, replaced September 2024 Pierre Simon, Marquis de Laplace. Etching by C. N. Cochin, le jeune, 1762, after himself.

1762

1 print : etching

1762, C. N. Cochin filius Delin et Sculp. aqua forti (printed, bottom recto).

[Finished state].

The title has been taken from wording on the object.

The subject of this etching was previously misidentified (including in R. Burgess' catalogue) as Pierre Simon, Marquis de Laplace.

Roux, Marcel, Inventaire du fonds français : graveurs du XVIIIe siècle : tome cinquième : Cochin Fils (Charles-Nicolas)-Dambrun, page 98, no. 327

Jombert, Charles-Antoine, Catalogue de l'oevre de Ch. Nic. Cochin Fils, page 126, no. 320 (60)

R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 1686.4

Wellcome Collection 5261i