Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis

1741

Jean Daullé

Artist, French, 1703 - 1763

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of John O'Brien

  • Dimensions

    plate: 51.8 x 35.7 cm (20 3/8 x 14 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 53.5 x 37.3 cm (21 1/16 x 14 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.23.9

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Firmin-Didot 1876, no. 351, State iii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Alfredo Misch (Lugt undescribed)

Associated Names

Bibliography

1876

  • Firmin-Didot, Ambroise. Les Drevet (Pierre, Pierre-Imbert et Claude); catalogue raisonne de leur oeuvre. Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1876.

Inscriptions

below image, lower left in plate: Peint par R. Tourniere; below image, lower right in plate: Grave par J. Daulle. 1741; across bottom of image, lower center in plate: Pierre Louis Moreau de Maup ertuis; lCp//: Ce Globe mal connu qu'il a seu mesurer / Devient un Monumentnou sa gloire se fonde. / Son soit est de fixer le figure du monde. / De lui plaire et de l'eclairer. / Par M de Voltaire; all by later hand, uLv//in graphite: At / Of-; lCv//in graphite: F1265; lLv//in graphite: a 79164 / OX-

Wikidata ID

Q74887731

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