Le Général Washington, Commendant en Chef des Armées Americaines, né en Virginie en 1733 (General Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Armies, born in Virginia in 1733 [sic])

Le Général Washington, Commendant en Chef des Armées Americaines, né en Virginie en 1733 (General Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Armies, born in Virginia in 1733 [sic]) by Charles Willson Peale|George Washington

Medium

Etching and engraving

Dimensions

Plate: 9 × 6 5/8 in. (22.8 × 16.8 cm) Sheet: 14 3/16 × 11 3/16 in. (36 × 28.4 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883

Accession Number

83.2.70

Tags

BattlesAmerican RevolutionGeorge WashingtonMenPortraitsGenerals

About the Artist

Charles Willson Peale|George Washington · 17411827

Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827) was an American painter, museum founder, naturalist, and inventor who became the most important American portraitist of the Revolutionary era and a central figure in the cultural life of the young republic. Born in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, he initially trained as a saddler before turning to painting, studying briefly with John Singleton Copley in Boston and ...

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