Alexander and Aristotle

Derivative websource: http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Alexander.htm

Engraving by Charles Laplante, a french engraver and illustrator.

This engraving was first inserted as illustration in the book of Louis Figuier, Vie des savants illustres - Savants de l'antiquité (tome 1), Paris, 1866. The subtitle of the illustration is "Education d'Alexandre par Aristote", and is inserted between the pages 134-135 (Chap. Aristote). The signature "C. LAPLANTE" is at the bottom-right. Charles Laplante is dead in 1903 and Louis Figuier in 1894. The book is digitalized by Google.

For a copy of the original engraving in his first french publication, see Education d'Alexandre par Aristote.

This engraving is also publish by the New York Public Library in his Digital Gallery with the subtitle : "Aristotle and his pupil, Alexander".