Portrait of Benjamin Franklin (Houdon/Lebarbier/Alix), after 1789
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France
Jean Jacques François Lebarbier (Attributed)
Chalk on paper; H. 20 in. (50.8 cm), W. 15 3/4 in. (40.0 cm)
American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia, Pa.), 353
Copied from a bust of Franklin, this image may have been made as a memorial at the time of Franklin's death.
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