Albert EdelfeltFinnish, 1854–1905Pasteur's portrait by Edelfelt
May one see it?
Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel
Musée d'Orsay
Paris, France
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
- In this state since
- Sep 29, 2026
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
About the painting
Pasteur's portrait by Edelfelt is the best-known portrait of the French chemist Louis Pasteur. Painted by Albert Edelfelt (1854–1905) in 1885, the painting shows Pasteur in his laboratory at the rue d'Ulm, surrounded by his experimental apparatus, the innovative laboratory glassware used in the experimental methods, developed by him on the field of bacteriology in the late 19th century.
Pasteur is regarded as one of the main founders of bacteriology, and he is popularly known as the "father of microbiology".
Particulars
- Accession number
- DO 1986 16
Sources
- Wikidata · fetched 3 days ago
- Image: Musée d'Orsay — Albert Edelfelt · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
