Musées de Langres – Maison des Lumières Denis Diderot – Musée d'Art et d'Histoire

Adoration of the Shepherds

Jean Michelin (1623–1686)
Langres, mid-18th century
Oil on canvas

Saint-Victor renversant l’autel des faux dieux (Saint Victor Knocking Down False Idols)

Jean-Baptiste Deshays (1729–1765)
Paris, probably 1760
Oil on canvas

Pinnule graphometer

Jean-Jacques Duhamel, the elder (1707–1766) or the son (active between 1763 and 1770)
Paris, mid-18th century
Brass, glass and magnet (instrument); iron and baize (box)

Les occupations du rivage (Seashore Occupations)

Workshop of Joseph Vernet (1714–1789)
Paris, 1766
Oil on canvas

La source abondante (The Bountiful Spring)

Workshop of Joseph Vernet (1714–1789)
Paris, 1766
Oil on canvas

Pensées philosophiques

Anonymous (Denis Diderot)
Paris, 1746

Gregorian telescope

Attributed to Claude Paris (1703–1763)
Paris, second third of the 18th century
Brass, iron, steel, glass and leather

Cyclopaedia : or, an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences […]

Ephraim Chambers (1680–1740)
London, 1741, 2 volumes

Two blade folding knife

Didier Diderot (1685–1759)
Steel, mother-of-pearl

Marine timekeeper

James Hatton
London, circa 1810
Steel, copper, brass, mahogany, glass, baize

Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1779

Pierre Jacques Volaire (1729–1799)
Naples, 1779
Oil on canvas

Box microscope

Jean-Baptiste Charles Gonichon (active between 1733 and1763)
Paris, circa 1745–1760
Wood, brass, glass, leather

La fête des bonnes gens ou la récompense de la Sagesse et de la Vertu (A Festival for Good Folk or Wisdom and Virtue Rewarded)

Pierre-Alexandre Wille (1748–1821)
Paris, 1776
Oil on canvas

Jupiter and Juno Receiving Nectar from Hebe

Gabriel François Doyen (1726–1806)
Paris, 1759–1761
Oil on canvas

Copernican orrery

Fortin workshop
Paris, circa 1775
Wood, paper, cardboard, iron

Atlantic puffin

Naturalised bird
France, 19th century
Feathers, skin, iron, wood, glass

Les plans et les statuts des différents établissements ordonnés par Sa Majesté Impériale Catherine II […] (Plans and Statutes of the Various Institutions Ordered by Her Imperial Majesty Catherine II […])

Ivan Ivanovich Betskoi (1704–1795)
Amsterdam, 1775
Book

Clock

Joseph de Saint-Germain (?–after 1765) and Claude-Julien Braillard (?–1791)
Versailles, circa 1750
Oak, bronze, brass, iron, horn, enamel

Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques, avec leur explication (Book of plates on the Sciences, Liberal Arts, and Mechanical arts, with Explanations)

Denis Diderot (1713–1784), Jean Le Rond D’Alembert (1717–1783)
Paris, 1763, 3rd volume of plates
Cutler. Plate 1

Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques, avec leur explication (Book of plates on the Sciences, Liberal Arts, and Mechanical arts, with Explanations)

Set of drawing instruments and their case

Michael Butterfield (1635–1724)
Paris, circa 1700
Cardboard and leather for the case
Steel, brass and wood for the instruments

Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers […]

Denis Diderot (1713–1784), Jean Le Rond D’Alembert (1717–1783)
Paris, 1751, vol. 1 of the volumes of text
Frontispiece

Apollo and Sarpedon

Jean Simon Berthélemy (1743–1811)
Paris, 1781
Oil on canvas

Jacques le Fataliste and his Master, frontispiece

Denis Diderot
Paris, 1798, 2 volumes

Chest of drawers with foliage and flower motif

Jacques Dubois (1694–1763)
Paris, 1745–1749
Oak, walnut, softwood, purpleheart, satinwood, violetwood, rosewood, bronze, marble

Portrait of Denis Diderot

Attributed to Louis-Michel van Loo (1707–1771)
Oil on canvas
Paris, circa 1770

Portrait de la marquise de Pompadour (Portrait of the Marquise of Pompadour)

Pastel on canvas
Anonymous, after Maurice-Quentin de La Tour (1704–1788)
France, 19th century

Kava bowl

Tonga (Polynesia), late 18th or early 19th century
Wood, rope

Omai a Native of Ulaietea

Francesco Bartolozzi (1727–1815)
London, 1774
Etching, burin, stippling

Pocket terrestrial globe

John Cary (1755–1835)
London, 1791
Cardboard, paper, iron and shagreen

Marine sextant

George Adams Junior (1750–1795)
London, circa 1780
Brass, glass, wood

Clock, “La Lecture” (“Reading”)

Laurent Guiard (1723–1788) and Pierre Musson
Paris, between 1754 and 1768
Patinated bronze and gilt bronze, wood

Bust of Denis Diderot

Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741–1828)
Paris, 1780
Bronze