Minerva and the personifications of the sciences amid portrait busts of deceased members of the Académie des Sciences, Elogues des Academiciens de l'Academie Royale des Sciences (...) (title on object), Allegorical representation with Minerva and the personifications of the sciences Sciences. Chemistry makes a laurel wreath for the portrait bust of Louis XIV, who founded the Académie des Sciences in 1666. Botany and two other personifications carry the bust to a niche, in which portrait busts of deceased members of the Académie (numbered 1-9). In the sky flies Faam. She blows the trumpet. In the margin a three-line caption and the legend in French., print, print maker: Bernard Picart, (mentioned on object), after drawing by: Bernard Picart, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1729, paper, etching, engraving, height, 307 mm × width, 205 mm
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