The Marquis de La Fayette
Date1787
After
Charles Willson Peale
(American, 1741 - 1827)
Engraver
Charles Willson Peale
(American, 1741 - 1827)
Subject
Marquis de Lafayette
(French, 1757 - 1834)
Geography
Made -
United States
Medium/TechniqueInk on paper; mezzotint
DimensionsOverall: 7 1/4 in. × 5 3/4 in. (18.42 cm × 14.61 cm)
Image: 5 1/8 in. × 4 3/16 in. (13.02 cm × 10.64 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, 1989
Object numberM-2086/B
DescriptionThis print is an oval portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette in military uniform.Published ReferencesE. P. Richardson, "Charles WIllson Peale's Engravings in the Year of National Crisis, 1787", Wintherthur Portfolio. Vol. I, (1964): 170. (general reference)
James Biddle, American Art from American Collections: Decorative Arts, Paintings, and Prints of the Colonial and Federal Periods, from Private Collections, (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1963), 100. (general reference)
Charles Coleman Sellers, "The Peale Portraits of Benjamin Franklin", Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 94, no. 3, Studies of Historical Documents in the Library of the American Philosophical Society (June, 1950): 251-257. (general reference)
MarkingsPrinted in ink below and around the image: "C.W. Pinxt. et Fecit. / The Marquis De La Fayette Major General in the Armies of the United States of America."
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c. 1860
c. 1780-1790
1820-1843
