Minerva and the personifications of the sciences amidst portrait busts of deceased members of the Académie des Sciences, Bernard Picart, 1729 Canvas Print

Minerva and the personifications of the sciences amidst portrait busts of deceased members of the Académie des Sciences, Bernard Picart, 1729 Canvas Print

Allegorical depiction with Minerva and the personifications of the 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, incorporating portrait busts of deceased members of the Académie (numbered 1-9). In the air flies Fame. She blows the trumpet. In the margin a three-line caption and the legend in French.

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