album;
drawing
- Museum number
- 1859,0806.117
- Description
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Caricature of Abbé Nollet facing to the right: drawing in an album.
Pen and brown ink
- Production date
- 1749 (7 September)
- Dimensions
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Height: 104 millimetres
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Width: 77 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1859,0806.91 for comment and description of album.
The inscription states that the sitter, Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700-1770), was professor of sperimental physics at the Royal College in Paris. He was also known as Abbé Nollet.
A full-length drawing by Ghezzi of Nollet facing left is in the Metropolitan Museum (J.Bean-W. Griswold, '18th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art', New York 1990, no. 70)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1859
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1859,0806.117