QUESNAY, François - ENGELMANN, Gottfried.

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Lithograph portrait of François Quesnay by Gottfried Engelmann after Pierre-Roch Vigneron. A half-length portrait of the French economist François Quesnay in a characteristically pensive pose, in fine clothing. Quesnay, the leading figure of the physiocrats, is generally considered the founding father of the first school of economic thinkers.Trained in Munich, Gottfried (or Godefroy) Engelmann (1788-1839) is credited with introducing lithography to France, after the establishment of his press in Paris in June 1816. Having learnt lithography from its inventor Alois Senefelder (1771-1834), who patented the process in 1799, Engelmann went on to develop techniques such as the lithographic wash (1819), and also commercialised chromolithography. His company Société Engelmann et Cie was founded in 1825, in collaboration with Jérémie Graf and Pierre Thierry, and a year later an annex company was founded in London, though it was dissolved in 1833.The painter, sculptor, and lithographer Pierre-Roch Vigneron (1789-1872) attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1814 and is noted for producing portraits of Chopin and Galen, in addition to that of Quesnay.The Wellcome Trust and BIU Santé Médecine hold the same lithograph after Vigneron except without the lettering "Lith. de Engelmann" lower right (Wellcome 8029i, Bibliothèque CIPC0113). The former attribute it to J. Chevalier, though Chevalier is instead the painter of a similar, but nevertheless different, half-length portrait of Que

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