Portrait Medallion of Benjamin Franklin

Description This plaster medallion is painted to look like terracotta. The piece has a moulded plaster frame painted gold and black.

Exhibitions

• The French in America. The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit. 1951.
• Portrait Medallions of Jean-Baptiste Nini. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2009-2010.
• Revolution! Documents from the American War of Independence. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2004.

Provenance William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Signature] Base of neck: NINI F; [Date] Illegible; [Transcription] ERIPUIT COELO FULMEN SCEPTRUMQUE TIRANNIS 1779; [Label] Paper label on back from sales catalogue

Credit Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters