Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Albert Edelfelt - Louis Pasteur - 1885.jpg

Louis Pasteur in 1885
Voting period ends on 12 Apr 2015  at 03:59:18 (UTC)
 * Reason:EV. This is the best known portrait of Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist - depicting him in his laboratory, painted by Finnish painter Albert Edelfelt (1854 – 1905) in 1885. Louis Pasteur is an absolute giant in the field of medicine, humanity has a lot to thank him. Thank you, Pasteur. Albert Edelfelt  is a rather good painter, too.  The painting of  Louis Pasteur   won him the Legion of Honour in 1886 at the exhibition at the Paris Salon. Louis Pasteur owned this picture and kept it in his dining room.
 * Articles in which this image appears: Pasteur's portrait by Edelfelt, Louis Pasteur, Germ theory of disease, History of biology, History of zoology (since 1859), Immunity (medical), Medicine, Microbiology, Microorganism,  Vitalism, Yeast in winemaking, Albert Edelfelt, + more
 * FP category for this image: I guess Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings, own article
 * Creator:Albert Edelfelt


 * Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 03:59, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Support  - Very nice. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:42, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Support Excellent. --Janke | Talk 12:28, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Support – Interesting historical illustration – (EV) – by a relatively unknown artist. (Also like his Two Women with Laundry.) Sca (talk) 15:05, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Support – SchroCat (talk) 10:50, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Support – talk→   WPPilot   19:15, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Support  -Jobas (talk) 01:18, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 04:00, 12 April 2015 (UTC)