Editing Albert Edelfelt (section)

=== Portrait of Louis Pasteur ===
In 1880 Edelfelt became a friend of Jean-Baptiste Pasteur, the son of the famous chemist [[Louis Pasteur]], who introduced him to Pasteur the following year. He became a close friend of family, and painted many of their portraits over the following years. Pasteur had a good sense of public relations, and participated with Edelfelt in the planning of his own portrait.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Weisberg|first=R.E., & Hansen, B.|date=2015|title=Collaboration of Art and Science in Albert Edelfelt's Portrait of Louis Pasteur: The Making of an Enduring Medical Icon|journal=Bulletin of the History of Medicine|volume=89 | issue = 1 |pages=59–91|doi=10.1353/bhm.2015.0001|pmid=25913463|s2cid=38247739|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/works-in-focus/painting/commentaire_id/louis-pasteur-234.html?tx_commentaire_pi1%5BpidLi%5D=509&tx_commentaire_pi1%5Bfrom%5D=841&cHash=8882653f99|title=Louis Pasteur Albert Edelfelt|publisher=musee-orsay.fr|access-date=April 2, 2015|archive-date=September 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170923050550/http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/works-in-focus/painting/commentaire_id/louis-pasteur-234.html?tx_commentaire_pi1&#91;pidLi&#93;=509&tx_commentaire_pi1&#91;from&#93;=841&cHash=8882653f99|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Edelfeld's portrait of Pasteur in his laboratory, painted in 1885, had a great success at the Paris Salon of 1886, and became one of the most familiar images of the scientist. It gained the painter the award of the [[Legion of Honor]] when he was only thirty-five years old.<ref name="Pommereau, Claude 2022 p. 26"/>
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File:Albert Edelfelt - Portrait of Louis Pasteur, Study.jpg|Study by Edelfelt for his portrait of Louis Pasteur
File:Albert Edelfelt - Louis Pasteur - 1885.jpg|Final ''[[Pasteur's portrait by Edelfelt|Pasteur's Portrait in his laboratory]]'' (1885)
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