Portrait of Benjamin Franklin (Greuze - APS), ca. 1777
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American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia

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Paris
Jean Baptiste Greuze (Attributed)
Oil on canvas; H. 29 5/8 in. (75.0 cm), W. 26 3/8 in. (67.0 cm) (oval)
American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia, Pa.)
There are believed to be only two oil portraits painted by Greuze using the pastel study of Franklin that he drew in 1777: one in a rectangular format, and this oval one.
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