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Shelfmark: Statue de la MadeleineNo institution Suggestions & Corrections  
Type: sculpture
Dimension: h 190
 
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Thematic group: Iconography of Lavoisier 
Type: portrait
Text: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier 1743-1794. Fondateur de la chimie moderne
Comment: Lavoisier standing and pointing the way. On his left side he is holding a glass jar from his pneumatic apparatus coupled with an assay balance. Two bas-reliefs decorated the side of pedestal. From the very beginning the artistic quality of Barrias’ sculpture was criticized and it often inspired more irony than consideration. A contemporary commentator in fact remarked “qu’on le représente [Lavoisier] portant sa tête sous le bras”. Others thought that Barrias simply took Condorcet as a model (the statue in Quai de Conti). The statue was erected in Place de la Madeleine (Paris) in 1900 and it was destroyed by the Nazi in 1943
 
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name: Ernst-Louis Barrias
resp.: author
name: Paris
date/range: 1900
date of: erection
epoch: 19 (2°)
name: Ernst-Louis Barrias
resp.: author
name: Paris
date/range: 1943
date of: distruction
epoch: 20 (1°)
name: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
resp.: portrayed
name: Paris
date/range: 1900
date of: erection
epoch: 19 (2°)

 
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