HOUDON, Jean-Antoine

Versailles, Yvelines 1741 - Paris 1828

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

after 1778

plaster cast with bronze finish

bust

Dimensions (HxWxD): 20 ⁵⁄₈ x 13 ⁵⁄₁₆ x 9 ⁹⁄₁₆ in.

Acc. No.: AC 1948-14

Credit Line: Purchased

Photo credit: ph. Collections Database, Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium, museums.fivecolleges.edu

© Artist : public domain

© Artist : public domain

Amherst, Massachusetts, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College

www.amherst.edu/museums/mead

Provenance

• 1948, Purchased

Bibliography

• Collections Database, Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium (accessed May 19, 2017)

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