# Jean Le Rond d'Alambert [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LA TOUR, Maurice Quentin de]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Pastel on blue paper, 56 x 46 cm ## Commentary Jean le Rond d'Alembert \(1717-1783\) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist and philosopher. He was also co-editor with Denis Diderot of the Encyclopédie. D'Alembert's method for the wave equation is named after him. At the Salon of 1753 de La Tour exhibited eighteen portraits of the most remarkable personalities and minds of that period of the Century of Enlightenment. D'Alambert's portrait was among them. ## Related artworks - [Louis XV]() - [Maréchal de Saxe]() - [Marquise de Pompadour]() - [Maurice, Comte de Saxe, Marshal of France]() - [Mlle Ferrand Meditating on Newton]() - [Monsieur Duval de l'Epinoy]() - [Philibert Orry de Vignory]() - [Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau]() - [Portrait of Nicole Richard as Child]() - [Self-Portrait]() - [Self-Portrait]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()