Antoine Laurent Lavoisier: his arrest by the revolutionaries while performing a chemical experiment. Etching by J. Duplessi-Bertaux after himself, 1798.

  • Duplessi-Bertaux, Jean, 1750-1818.
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1798
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5321i
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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier: his arrest by the revolutionaries while performing a chemical experiment. Etching by J. Duplessi-Bertaux after himself, 1798. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1798

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1 print : etching

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[Finished state].

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Detail of Wellcome Library no. 5320i

References note

Marcel Roux and Edmond Pognon, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome VIII, Paris 1955, p. 333, Duplessi-Bertaux no. 437 ("437. Lavoisier arrêté dans son laboratoire, par le Comité Révolutionnaire. État avant divers travaux, notamment les teintes du fond, sans autre lettre que la signature : "J. DB. sc." indiquée à la pointe sous le tr. c. à g., … Pl. terminée, état accompagnant le portr. de Lavoisier, avec les signatures : "Duplessi-Bertaux inv. & del. — l'An 7 de la Répub. — Duplessi-Bertaux aqua forti", … 6e livraison")
R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 1705.10

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