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Visual biographies: the self and the portrait

The marquise Du Châtelet in her twenties, by F.B.-Lépicié

(by courtesy of Mme Thierry)

The marquise Du Châtelet, by Marianne Loi, c.1741 

(from the collection Château de Breteuil, Choiseul near Cherreuse)

The marquise Du Châtelet, c. 1745. after Maurice Quentin de la Tour

(from the collection Château de Breteuil)

Design for a never-realized statue of Du Châtelet, drawn by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin in 1770.

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