SculptureItalian18th century
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
after 1777
Artists
Unidentified ArtistArtist
Jean-Jacques CaffieriArtist after
Hiram PowersPrevious attribution
Description
One of several marble copies derived from the original terracotta bust by Jean-Jacques Caffieri from 1777, currently in the Bibliothèque Mazarine, Paris.
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.)
Provenance
Howland Warren, Richard Warren and Mary Warren, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1961.
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