Advanced Search
Advanced Search

Requires Photography

Portrait of Benjamin Franklin

Pierre Michel Alix (French, 1762–1817)
After: Charles Amédée Philippe Vanloo (French, c. 1719 – 1795)
Published by: Marie François Drouhin (French, active 1791–1813)
1795

Medium/Technique Color aquatint
Dimensions Sheet: 40.2 × 30.2 cm (15 13/16 × 11 7/8 in.)(trimmed on the platemark)
Credit Line Gift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession NumberK186
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné IFF (18th cent.) 55; Le Blanc 72; Meyer 34
Marks Verso, lower center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA Koehler Collection (Lugt 1581)
ProvenancePDP Register entry: Date acquired, 10/20/1898; deposited in Museum 1895-1896