拍品 85
85
Jean-Michel Moreau, called Moreau le Jeune (Paris 1741-1814)
Jean-Michel Moreau, called Moreau le Jeune (Paris 1741-1814)

The four continents, with Benjamin Franklin as the personificaton of America, before an Allegory of Religion, Ermenonville and the Tomb of Rousseau seen beyond

細節
Jean-Michel Moreau, called Moreau le Jeune (Paris 1741-1814)
The four continents, with Benjamin Franklin as the personificaton of America, before an Allegory of Religion, Ermenonville and the Tomb of Rousseau seen beyond
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
7 1/8 x 10 7/8 in. (800 x 770 mm.)
刻印
By André Macret (1751-1789), with numerous differencies, in 1785.

拍品專文

Benjamin Franklin was Commissioner for the United States in Paris from 1776 to 1785, the year the print derived from the present drawing was made and the year Franklin returned to America to take up the post of President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania.