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Jerôme Lalande

Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande
Bourg-en-Bresse 1732 - Paris 1807
French astronomer and mathematician
(Wikipedia)

Alphonse Muscat
1908

Description

Bronze bust on a richly decorated pedestal: on the front a relief of a allegorical female representing astronomy, with at the foot astronomical instruments, and at the sides two putti symbolzing Science (reading) and Work (with a pickaxe).

Bourg-en-Bresse - Jerôme Lalande

Inscription(s)

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JERÔME LALANDE
1732-1807

joseph hierosme lefrancois de lalande

né a bourg
le 11 juillet 1732
mort à paris
le 4 avril 1807

Signature

A. Muscat 1908

Sculptor

Alphonse Muscat (Genève or Lagnieu, Ain 1872 - 1944), French sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Wikipedia, Liste des œuvres d'art de l'Ain.
e-Monumen.net, Monumen.

Locatie (N 46°12'16" - E 5°13'27") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frra284; Photograph: 17 August 2018
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