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- Museum number
- 1881,0709.31
- Title
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Object: J. Sylvain Bailly, Président de l'Assemblée Nationale, ne le 15 7bre 1736
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Series: Collection générale des Portraits de MM. les Deputés des trois Ordres assemblés à Versailles en 1789
- Description
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Portrait of Jean Sylvain Bailly, bust directed to left and glancing towards viewer, with powdered wig; in oval frame surmounted by ribbon and garland of oak leaves; in the lower part, snake coiled around a mirror. 1789
Manière de lavis, with etched border
- Production date
- 1789
- Dimensions
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Height: 234 millimetres (plate-mark)
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Width: 178 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From a series representing the deputies of the Assemblée Nationale, see 1881,0709.32.
Also see earlier state with aquatint border, 1925,0615.441.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1881
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1881,0709.31