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Louis Pasteur in 1885

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Original – The best known portrait of Louis Pasteur is depicting him among the innovative laboratory glassware used in the experimental methods. Pasteur is regarded as as the "father of microbiology" - for discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization. Louis Pasteur invented a vaccine against rabies, too.

Reason

EV. This is the best known portrait of Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist - depicting him in his laboratory, painted by Finnish painter Albert Edelfelt (1854 – 1905) in 1885.
Louis Pasteur is an absolute giant in the field of medicine, humanity has a lot to thank him. Thank you, Pasteur. Albert Edelfelt is a rather good painter, too. The painting of Louis Pasteur won him the Legion of Honour in 1886 at the exhibition at the Paris Salon.
Louis Pasteur owned this picture and kept it in his dining room.

Articles in which this image appears

Pasteur's portrait by Edelfelt, Louis Pasteur, Germ theory of disease, History of biology, History of zoology (since 1859), Immunity (medical), Medicine, Microbiology, Microorganism, Vitalism, Yeast in winemaking, Albert Edelfelt, + more

FP category for this image

I guess Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings, own article

Creator

Albert Edelfelt

• Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 03:59, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Very nice. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:42, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
• Support Excellent. --Janke | Talk 12:28, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
• Support – Interesting historical illustration – (EV) – by a relatively unknown artist. (Also like his Two Women with Laundry.) Sca (talk) 15:05, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
• Support – SchroCat (talk) 10:50, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
• Support – talk→ WPPilot  19:15, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
• Support -Jobas (talk) 01:18, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:Albert Edelfelt - Louis Pasteur - 1885.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 04:00, 12 April 2015 (UTC)