RefNoIM/003024
LevelItem
TitleMaupertuis, Pierre Louis Morceau de
ArtistDaullé; Jean (1703 - 1763); engraver
Date1741
DescriptionFull-length portrait of Pierre Louis Maupertuis in fur clothes from his 1736 expedition to Lapland, where he measured a length of the arc of the meridian. Engraving after Robert Tournières (1667 - 1752). An inscription from Voltaire is seen below, alongside an illustration of a reindeer pulling a sledge.
InscriptionContent‘Ce Globe mal connu, qu'il à su mesurer, / Devient un monument où sa gloire se fonde; / Son sort est de fixer la figure du monde, / De lui plaire, et de l'éclairer./ Par M de Voltaire’. Inscribed below: ‘Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis.’ ‘Peint par R. Tourniere’ ‘Gravé par J.Daullé. 1741.’
ObjectNameEngraving
MaterialsBlack and white engraving
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7795Maupertuis; Pierre Louis Moreau de (1698 - 1759)1698 - 1759
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