Establishment of the French Academy of Sciences and of the Paris Observatory, 1667. Painting in oil on canvas by Henri Testelin, 1675-1680
Jean-Baptiste Colbert (dressed in black and standing to the right of the King) presenting Members of the Royal Academy of Sciences to Louis XIV in 1667.
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