Antoine, Baron Dubois. Colour mezzotint by J.B. Gautier after L. L. Boilly.

  • Boilly, Louis, 1761-1845.
Date:
[between 1790 and 1799?]
Reference:
2629i
  • Pictures

Selected images from this work

View 2 images

About this work

Publication/Creation

A Paris (rue St-Jacques, no. 5 vis-à-vis la Fontaine St Séverin) : chez Gautier graveur, [between 1790 and 1799?]

Physical description

1 print : mezzotint, printed in colours

Lettering

Antoine Dubois Professeur à l'École de Médecine de Paris. Bene agere ac laetari. Déposé à la Bibliothèque Impériale. Boilly pinxt. Gautier sc. "Bene agere ac laetari": Ecclesiastes 3.12, "(I know that there is no good in them, but for a man) to rejoice, and to do good in his life", the motto of Dubois (Bréton and Zuber, loc. cit.)

References note

Michèle Hébert et al., Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome X, Paris 1968, p. 24, J.B. Gautier no. 59
R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 856.1
Étienne Bréton and Pascal Zuber, Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1761-1845: le peintre de la société parisienne de Louis XVI à Louis-Philippe, Paris: Arthena, 2019, vol. II, p. 846, no. 1825E

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2629i

Languages

Where to find it

  • LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores

Permanent link