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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1163
People
Unidentified Artist
Modeling attributed to (?) Josse François Joseph Le Riche, French (Mons, France 1741 - 1812 Mons, France)
After ? Jean-Jacques Caffieri, French (1725 - 1792)
Manufactured by Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Title
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture, bust
Date
18th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, France, Sevres
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230008

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Unglazed hard-paste porcelain
Dimensions
23 x 22.4 x 13.5 cm (9 1/16 x 8 13/16 x 5 5/16 in.)
with both bases: 31.8 cm (12 1/2 in.)
height with ceramic base: 29 cm (11 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: inside base, graphite, handwritten: Bot of Sevres / Royal Mc / 7 June [ ] 25 / Jy / 1
  • inscription: back of bust, incised: LR / '3
  • label: bottom of wooden base, paper, black ink, handwritten: [Unit?] / 14

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1163
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Charles Coleman Sellers, Benjamin Franklin in Portraiture, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1962), pp. 371-372, pl. 14
  • Louise Todd Ambler, Benjamin Franklin: A Perspective, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975), pp. 84-85, 123-124, no. 48, ill. p. 84

Exhibition History

  • Benjamin Franklin: A Perspective, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/17/1975 - 09/22/1975

Verification Level

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