Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), after a Painting by Greuze of 1777
Medium
Ivory
Dimensions
Oval, 3 3/8 x 2 3/4 in. (85 x 68 mm)
Classification
Miniatures
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of J. William Middendorf II, 1968
Accession Number
68.222.9
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Benjamin FranklinMenPortraits
About the Artist
Charles Paul Jérôme de Bréa · 1739–1820
**Charles Paul Jérôme de Bréa** (1740–1820) was a French pastellist, miniaturist, engraver, and painter whose long career bridged the Rococo elegance of the Ancien Régime and the turbulent portraits of the Revolutionary era. Born in Rouen on 4 July 1740 into a family of Italian painters established in Chartres since the late seventeenth century, he had a cousin, Pierre-Raphaël Bréa, who may accoun...