Portrait of Benjamin Franklin (Duplessis workshop - Met)
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Paris
Oil on canvas; Unframed: H. 27 5/8 in. (70.2 cm), W. 22 1/4 in. (56.5 cm); framed: H. 41 1/2 in. (105.4 cm), W. 36 in. (91.4 cm), D. 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), 95.21 
Portraits of Franklin were in great demand in France during the years in which he was active there. Franklin's reluctance to sit to artists meant that any who had been fortunate enough to capture one image of him were able to duplicate it for other clients.
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