Price: $650.00
SKU: 100305
ARTIST: Joseph-Silfrede Duplessis
MEDIUM: Color aquatint, printed in color and finished by hand.
DATE: 1789.
EDITION SIZE: Oval image size 9 7/8 x 8 5/16 (25 x 21 cm)
DESCRIPTION: After Joseph Siffred Duplessis (French 1725–1802 Versailles). Engraved by Jean-Francois Janinet.<br><br> A rare separately portrait.<br><br> When Franklin arrived in France in December 1776 to negotiate aid for the American Revolutionary War, he was already a celebrity known for his simple dress and refusal to wear a wig. He stayed in a house provided by Jacques Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont, who commissioned a terracotta medallion with his profile as well as a portrait by Duplessis, which was exhibited at the Salon of 1779. It quickly became the most iconic image of this legendary statesman
ADDITIONAL INFO: Laid down on old paper with manuscript title.
CONDITION: Good condition, minor toning
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