Alexis Claude Clairaut. Line engraving by L. J. Cathelin after C. N. Cochin.

  • Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790.
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1771
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1834i
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Alexis Claude Clairaut. Line engraving by L. J. Cathelin after C. N. Cochin. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1771

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1 print : engraving

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Marcel Roux, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome IV, Paris 1940, p. 19, no. 38 ("38. 'Clairaut'. En buste, de profil à dr., dans un médaillon ovale suspendu à un fond rectangulaire. Sous le tr. c.: 'C. N. Cochin del. Cathelin sculp.' — H. 0m226 x L. 0m270. … Ce portrait figure dans la Galerie françoise de Restout (tome I 1771). L'original avait été précédemment gravé par l'abbé Campion de Tersan (1763).")
R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 613.1

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