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Shelfmark: Inv. No. 285 LM Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte  (Münster Germany) Suggestions & Corrections  
Type: painting
Dimension: 114 x 159
 
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Thematic group: Iconography of Lavoisier 
Type: portrait
Text: Die Verhaftung von Lavoisier
Comment: Very little is known about the cultural background of this interesting painting. Langenmantel was probably inspired by Duplessi’s engraving of 1798 illustrating an imaginary reconstruction of Lavoisier’s arrest. Here too in fact the scene of the arrest is unrealistic both in the reconstruction of the event (Lavoisier was never arrested) and of the setting (the laboratory resembles that of an alchemist rather than that of an 18th century chemist).
 
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Person City Cronology   Position
name: Ludwig von Langenmantel
resp.: author
name: Muenchen
date/range: 1876
date of: manufacture
epoch: 19 (2°)
name: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
resp.: portrayed
name: Muenchen
date/range: 1876
date of: manufacture
epoch: 19 (2°)

 
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