Badge of the Cincinnati Medal
Pierre Charles L'Enfant
ca. 1783
Medium
Gold
Dimensions
L. 2 in. (5.1 cm)
Classification
Badge
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1935
Accession Number
35.46a, b
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Eagles
About the Artist
Pierre Charles L'Enfant · 1754–1825
Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1754–1825) was a French-American artist, professor, and military engineer whose visionary urban design shaped the capital of the United States. Born on August 2, 1754, in the Gobelins district of Paris, he was the son of Pierre L'Enfant, a noted painter and professor at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture renowned for his battle panoramas at the court of Louis XV.)...