Jean Marie Delattre and Jacques Esnaut & Michel Rapilly
Portrait of Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
1761-1839
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- Artist: Jean Marie Delattre
- Publisher: Jacques Esnaut & Michel Rapilly
Portrait of Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
1761-1839
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 190 × 130 mm. (7 1/2 × 5 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.4382
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (24 January 1732 – 18 May 1799) was a French polymath. At various times in his life, he was a watchmaker, inventor, playwright, musician, diplomat, spy, publisher, horticulturist, arms dealer, satirist, financier, and revolutionary (both French and American).
Inscribed: Recto: in plate: "Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais"; "Grave par Delatre"; "A Paris ches Esnauts et Rapilly rue St. Jacques, a la Ville de Coutances A. P. D. R."
