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MEDALLIC PORTRAITURE OF' ANTOINE LAURENT LAVOISIER DENIS I. DUVEEN Duveen Soap Corporation, Long Island City, New York
HERBERT S. KLICKSTEIN University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
DESPITE the fact that only one authentic portrait of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier exists, by Jacques Louis David (1748-1825), there are a considerable number of other iconographic sources available, particularly medals. There are at least some 23 medallic portraits of Lavoisier.' These medals provide not only a likeness of Lavoisier but usually a summation of his accomplishments in a few words or by means of some derorative device. "Held in the hand, they provide not only information but also the aesthetic pleasure of watching the interplay of light and shadow when the specimen is tilted in various dire~tions."~ I t is not generally known that f o x Lavoisier medals
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H. R., For full details see the following sources: STORER, "Medicina in Kummis," Boston, 1931, pp. 2924; "Catalogue of Printed Workshy and Memorabilia. of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, (F 7) Bron=e Medal, 1802,by Augurtin Dupri (1748-1833). French 1743-1794. . Exhihited at the Grolier Club," New York, 1952, Medalist. 41 m m . pp. 72-0 (prepared by DUVEEN,D . I., AND H. S. KLICXETEIN); below. Du,,rg. R ~ L~~ ac;cncea ~ e1~ DUVEEN, ~ D. ~ I., AND ~ H. : S. KLICKSTEIN, "An Ironovaphv of Anobverse:B , , x ~in to uiciimc deafureurs ,irotutionnoirca. toine Laurent Lavoisier, 1743-1794" (in ~re~aration). ia pntric pleurcnt cei iuustre savant PR.
