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Shelfmark: MG 1617
Type: sculpture
Dimension: 97 x 48
  
Component's data
Type: portrait
Text: Calcination du plomb dans l’air au verre ardent. Vicq d’Azir [sic] Guyton de Morveau Monge Berthollet Laplace Lamarck Lagrange Condrocet. E. Barrias
Comment: this plaster model, in natural size, of the bronze bas relief which Barrias prepared for his statue of Lavoisier was donated to the Musée de Grenoble by Barrias’ widow in 1908. It was restored in 1989 by P. Klein. The representation of a lecture by Lavoisier to his colleagues at the Académie is probably a free reconstruction of Barrias. The experiments with the verre ardent in fact date 1772 and by that date none of the scientists reproduced by Barrias, with the exception of Guyton who was not yet a member of the Académie des sciences, had an interest in Lavoisier’s experiment.
    
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Shelfmark: Statue de la Madeleine
Type: sculpture
Dimension: h 190
 
Component's data
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
Person City Cronology   Position
name: Ernst-Louis Barrias
resp.: author
name: Paris
date/range: 1900
date of: manufacture
epoch: 19 (2°)

Person City Cronology   Position
name: Ernst-Louis Barrias
resp.: author
name: Paris
date/range: 1900
date of: erection
epoch: 19 (2°)
 
Digital version1  Image/s
Bas relief Grenoble Académie

 

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Digital version2  Image/s
Statue Madeleine Front Statue Madeleine profile

 

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