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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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	book
		bibliographic reference	Imaging a Career in Science. The Iconography of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier...
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	engraving
		portrait	Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, fermier général né a Paris le 16 [sic] aôut 1743. Jugé le 16 floréal l’an...

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Attributes
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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