L'Optique

• Engraved by Charles Nicholas Cochin, French. After Jacques de la Joue
  Made in Paris
• Plate: 12 x 14.5 in.
  Engraving on laid paper
• Not on display
• Gift of Fisher Scientific International
• Fisher Collection
• FA 2000.001.219
• No known copyright restrictions

Description

The Duke of Picquigny commissioned Charles Nicholas Cochin to engrave a series of allegories after paintings of Jacques de la Joue. This allegory of optics includes such instruments as a telescope, a reflecting mirror, a microscope, and a magic lantern set in a landscape.

Inscription

L'Optique
Tiré du cabinet de Monseigneur le Duc de Picquigny.
Se vend à Paris ches la veuve de François Chereau graveur du Roy, rue St. Jacques aux deux Piliers d'Or.