Charles Guillaume Alexandre Bourgeois
Illustration — C. Bourgeois; portrait by Louis-Léopold Boilly (c.1800) Charles Guillaume Alexandre Bourgeois (16 December 1759 – 7 May 1832) was a French physicist and painter. His two main works are: • Leçons expérimentales d'optique sur la lumière et les couleurs destinées à rétablir dans leur intégrité les faits dénaturés par Newton (1816–1817) • Manuel d'optique expérimentale à l'usage des artistes et des physiciens (1821). • Illustration — Maria Letizia Ramolino. • Illustration — Jean Gaspard Vence, French privateer and Admiral (Musée du Louvre).
Also recorded as Charles-Guillaume-Alexandre Bourgeois · Alexandre Bourgeois · Charles Guilleaume Bourgeois · Charles Bourgeois
Charles Guillaume Alexandre Bourgeois
Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761-1845) · Palais Beaux-Arts Lille · Public domain
- Born
- 1759 · Amiens.
- Died
- 1832 · Paris.
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- France
- Occupation
- painter · printmaker · physicist · chemist
- Teachers
- Johann Georg Wille · Franz Peter Kymli
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — C. Bourgeois; portrait by Louis-Léopold Boilly (c.1800) Charles Guillaume Alexandre Bourgeois (16 December 1759 – 7 May 1832) was a French physicist and painter. His two main works are: • Leçons expérimentales d'optique sur la lumière et les couleurs destinées à rétablir dans leur intégrité les faits dénaturés par Newton (1816–1817) • Manuel d'optique expérimentale à l'usage des artistes et des physiciens (1821). • Illustration — Maria Letizia Ramolino. • Illustration — Jean Gaspard Vence, French privateer and Admiral (Musée du Louvre).
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Training under Johann Georg Wille and Franz Peter Kymli is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Work by Charles Guillaume Alexandre Bourgeois is recorded in the collections of Museo del Prado, Nationalmuseum, Musée Cognacq-Jay and Wallraf–Richartz Museum.
Charles Guillaume Alexandre Bourgeois is recorded as painter, printmaker, physicist and chemist.
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1759
Charles Guillaume Alexandre Bourgeois was born in 1759 at Amiens.
1832
Charles Guillaume Alexandre Bourgeois died in 1832 at Paris.
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- 1.Napoléon, Ministère d'État, Affaires culturelles, Réunion des musées nationaux, 1969.
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- La Revue du Louvre et des musées de France, Volumes 11 à 12, Conseil des musées nationaux, 1961
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