Bernard-Germain-Étienne de La Ville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède or La Cépède was a French naturalist and an active freemason. He is known for his contribution to the Comte de Buffon's great work, the
Portrait by Joseph Ducreux, c. 1785
The Jardin des Plantes and the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle.
Bust of Bernard-Germain de Lacépède by David d'Angers (1824).