Portrait of Blaise Pascal
Augustin de Saint-Aubin, after Augustin Pajou Augustin de Saint-Aubin
- Institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
- Accession
- 17.3.756–1475
- Credit
- Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
- Rights
Public domain: the engraver died in 1807 and the sculptor of the statue it follows in 1809. The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 through its Open Access programme.
- Description
- An engraved portrait on a sheet of cream paper: Pascal in profile, facing right, with long curling hair and a plain collar, inside an oval frame set in a finely ruled rectangle. A tablet beneath reads B.se Pascal, and a line of small lettering below credits Saint-Aubin, after the marble statue by Pajou.
- Image
- 1057 × 1600
source file retrieved 2026-10-11 - Catalogue no.
- G-009106
coldlibrary.com/g/009106 - Credit line
- Augustin de Saint-Aubin, after Augustin Pajou, Portrait of Blaise Pascal, 1802. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain (CC0). Via Cold Library: https://coldlibrary.com/g/009106
Saint-Aubin made this print in 1802 from the marble statue of Pascal by Augustin Pajou, so it is a likeness at two removes, made long after Pascal’s death in 1662. I found no picture of the Pascaline itself in the Met’s open collection, so the maker stands in for his machine.
