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Shelfmark:	Portrait of FranklinPrivate collection	Suggestions & Corrections
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Thematic group:	Iconography of Lavoisier  Documents on and by Madame Lavoisier
Type:	portrait
Abstract:	Portrait of Benjamin Franklin
Comment:	In receiving this painting on October 23 1783, Benjamin Franklin wrote to Madame Lavoisier the following: “I have long time been disabled from writing to my dear friend, by a severe fit of the gout, or I should have return’d my thanks for her kind present of the portrait, which she has herself done me the honour to make of me. It is allow’d by those who have seen it to have great merit as a picture in every respect; but what particularly endears it to me, is the hand who drew it.” Of this portrait Madame Lavoisier made two copies. One, the present, which was sent to Benjamin Franklin, the other which was retained by Madame Lavoisier and passed over Lavoisier's heirs. The latter was probably sold during the 1950s by Nelly de Chazelles and no photographic reproduction is known.

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bibliography
	book Correspondance 1787-1788
		bibliographic reference	Correspondance 1787-1788...
	book Benjamin Franklin in Port
		bibliographic reference	Benjamin Franklin in Portraiture...
	book
		bibliographic reference	Imaging a Career in Science. The Iconography of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier...
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	manuscript
		letter/s	On a portrait of Franklin...

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Person	City	Cronology	Position
name: Benjamin Franklin resp.: portrayed	name: Paris	date/range: 1787 date of: manufacture epoch: 18 (2°)
name: Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier resp.: author	name: Paris	date/range: 1787 date of: manufacture epoch: 18 (2°)

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