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])
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
About the Artist
Charles Willson Peale|George Washington · 1741–1827
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 ...