Benjamin Franklin
Original title
Joseph Siffred Duplessis
- Institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
- Rights
A public-domain painting released by The Metropolitan Museum of Art under its Open Access policy (CC0).
- Description
- Oval portrait of an old man with long grey hair, wearing a red coat with a fur collar, set in a gilded carved frame crowned with a laurel wreath, with the word VIR on a tablet beneath.
- Image
- 1200 × 1600
source file - Catalogue no.
- G-008007
coldlibrary.com/g/008007 - Credit line
- Joseph Siffred Duplessis, Benjamin Franklin, 1778. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain (CC0). Via Cold Library: https://coldlibrary.com/g/008007
Painted in Paris in 1778, when Franklin was seventy-two and serving as the American envoy to France. The frame carries a single Latin word, VIR, ‘a man’. It hangs beside the epitaph he wrote fifty years earlier as a printer of twenty-two.
