{"product_id":"lavoisier-antique-french-revolution-aquatint-portrait-levachez-1799-framed","title":"Lavoisier Antique French Revolution Aquatint Portrait Levachez 1799 Framed","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn original French Revolution portrait of \u003cstrong\u003eLavoisier\u003c\/strong\u003e, the portrait roundel engraved in aquatint by Levachez and the narrative vignette beneath designed and etched by Duplessi-Bertaux, dated in the plate \u003cstrong\u003el'An 7 de la Rép.\u003c\/strong\u003e (1798-99).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe lettering reads \u003cstrong\u003eANTOINE LAURENT LAVOISIER, FERMIER GÉNÉRAL NÉ A PARIS LE 16 AOUT 1743. Jugé le 16 floréal l'an 2\u003c\/strong\u003e. Lavoisier is shown seated in his laboratory among retorts and flasks, gesturing as a group of men burst in to arrest him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAntoine-Laurent Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry, identified and named oxygen and hydrogen and established the law of conservation of mass. His role as a \u003cem\u003efermier général\u003c\/em\u003e, one of the hated private tax collectors of the Ancien Régime, led to his arrest during the Terror, and he was guillotined in May 1794. (Most biographies give his birth as 26 August; the plate reads 16.) Of interest to collectors of the history of science as well as of the Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plate comes from the celebrated series of revolutionary portraits issued with the \u003cem\u003eTableaux historiques de la Révolution française\u003c\/em\u003e in Paris. Each plate follows the same format: a finely worked aquatint portrait by \u003cstrong\u003eCharles-François-Gabriel Levachez\u003c\/strong\u003e in a circular medallion, above an etched vignette by \u003cstrong\u003eJean Duplessi-Bertaux\u003c\/strong\u003e showing a defining moment in the sitter's life, with the lettering beneath. The portraits were issued in instalments from the late 1790s and added to the \u003cem\u003eTableaux historiques\u003c\/em\u003e in its 1802 edition; impressions are held by the Musée Carnavalet in Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFraming and provenance:\u003c\/strong\u003e in an ebonised reeded frame bearing to the reverse the trade label of Samuel Jennings, 16 Duke Street, Manchester Square, London - \"To Her Majesty the Queen \u0026amp; the Royal Family, Estab'd 1824\". The National Portrait Gallery's directory of British framemakers records \u003cstrong\u003eSamuel Jennings, Carver, Gilder \u0026amp; Printseller\u003c\/strong\u003e at 16 Duke Street, Manchester Square, London from 1850 to 1885, so this print has been in an English collection since the Victorian period. Offered from a group of these portraits framed by Jennings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e age-toning and foxing to the paper consistent with age; please see all photographs, which form part of the description. Frame with wear commensurate with age. Hanging wire to the reverse. Not examined out of the frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 28 x 22.5 cm framed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarefully packed and posted. Please ask if you would like any further photographs or measurements.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Moffitts Antiques","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54613030535452,"sku":null,"price":145.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0677\/4630\/0188\/files\/57_5eb0ad3a-cd77-4d1a-9f96-016ea1ab7804.jpg?v=1790407050","url":"https:\/\/moffitts.co.uk\/products\/lavoisier-antique-french-revolution-aquatint-portrait-levachez-1799-framed","provider":"Moffitts Antiques","version":"1.0","type":"link"}