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Claudine Poullet Guyton de Morveau

(Guyton de Morveau, Claudine Poullet, baronne)

This portrait is a detail from a larger group portrait by an unknown painter of the 19th century. It shows Claudine Picardet (later Baronne Guyton de Morveau) standing, holding a book to symbolize her work as a translator. She is wearing a low-necked lacy white dress with a pink waist, and an elaborate greyish wig. Probable dates for the painting are between 1782 (when the group shown began working on nomenclature) and 1816 when Baron Guyton de Morveau (shown in the full painting) died.
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Claudine Picardet (born Poullet, later Guyton de Morveau) (7 August 1735 – 4 October 1820) was a French chemist, mineralogist, meteorologist and scientific translator. Among the French chemists of the late eighteenth century she stands out for her extensive translations of scientific literature from Swedish, English, German and Italian to French. She translated three books and thousands of pages of scientific papers, which were published as well as circulated in manuscript form. She hosted renowned scientific and literary salons in Dijon and Paris, and was an active participant in the collection of meteorological data. She helped to establish Dijon and Paris as scientific centers, substantially contributing to the spread of scientific knowledge during a critical period in the chemical revolution. (From Wikipedia)

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