FRENCH SCHOOL. Late 18th century. “Presumed portrait of the Lyon pharmacist and revolutionary deputy Deschamps.” Pastel. Annotated in the lower right corner on a note held in the left hand: “MEMOIRE SUR LES EXTRAITS” read at the Public Session of… by Deschamps, the pharmacist in Lyon, / 1798. H. 63 – W. 52.5 cm. Beautiful 18th-century gilded wooden frame. Citizen Deschamps, a pharmacist in Lyon, published in the Journal of the Society of Pharmacists of PARIS? his treatise on plant extracts and the deposits that form in them, which was subsequently annotated and published by J. T. Reyman, a bookseller in Lyon.
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FRENCH SCHOOL. Late 18th century. “Presumed portrait of the Lyon pharmacist and revolutionary deputy Deschamps.” Pastel. Annotated in the lower right corner on a note held in the left hand: “MEMOIRE SUR LES EXTRAITS” read at the Public Session of… by Deschamps, the pharmacist in Lyon, / 1798. H. 63 – W. 52.5 cm. Beautiful 18th-century gilded wooden frame. Citizen Deschamps, a pharmacist in Lyon, published in the Journal of the Society of Pharmacists of PARIS? his treatise on plant extracts and the deposits that form in them, which was subsequently annotated and published by J. T. Reyman, a bookseller in Lyon.