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File:Pierre de Fermat.jpg

Pierre_de_Fermat.jpg ‎(299 × 400 pixels, file size: 37 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Description A portrait of Pierre de Fermat, French lawyer and mathematician.
Date 17th century A.D.
Source http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/PictDisplay/Fermat.html
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Excluding the case that the original is fake, then this portrait was painted in the 17thcentury. Thus its painter is far more than 100 years dead.

Originally uploaded on the English Wikipedia by User:Magnus Manske.

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