1961.27: Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1961.27

People

Unidentified Artist
After Jean-Jacques Caffieri, French (1725 - 1792)
Previously attributed to Hiram Powers, American (Woodstock, NY 1805 - 1873 Florence, Italy)

Title

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

sculpture, bust

Date

after 1777

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/312031

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Marble

Dimensions

65.41 x 50.8 x 29.21 cm (25 3/4 x 20 x 11 1/2 in.)
base: 12.7 cm (5 in.)
column: 102.87 x 37.47 x 37.47 cm (40 1/2 x 14 3/4 x 14 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: base: Benjamin Franklin / 1706-1790

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Howland Warren, Richard Warren and Mary Warren, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1961.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the Warrens and Mrs. Murphy

Accession Year

1961

Object Number

1961.27

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

One of several marble copies derived from the original terracotta bust by Jean-Jacques Caffieri from 1777, currently in the Bibliothèque Mazarine, Paris.

Publication History

• Sylvia E. Crane, White Silence, University of Miami Press (Coral Gables, FL, 1972), p. 452
• Louise Todd Ambler, Benjamin Franklin: A Perspective, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975), pp. 84-85, 123, no. 46, ill. p. 84

Exhibition History

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

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