Duplessis-Valade/Portrait of Benjamin Franklin
- Title
- Duplessis-Valade/Portrait of Benjamin Franklin
- Collection
- Caltech Images Collection
- Series
- Fine Art Photographs
- Identifier
- FA-BF-0046
- Extents
- 1 photographs
- Abstract
- Large portrait of Franklin, in three-quarter right profile, dressed in a coat with fur collar. Photograph of a ca. 1785 oil painting, probably by French portrait painter Jean Valade (1709-1787) [and originally owned by Thomas Jefferson], after a 1778 painting by Joseph Siffred Duplessis (1751-1831). Photographed in Berlin.