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Shelfmark: Portrait of FranklinPrivate collection Suggestions & Corrections  
Type: painting
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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...
 description of
    manuscript
 letter/s  On a portrait of Franklin...

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Attributes
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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Franklin Madame Lavoisier

 

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