$2,394
Estimate: $2,500 - $5,000
American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts
Auction: April 27, 2021 11:00:00 AM EDT
The sitters identified with the incised, "Docteur Franklin" and "General Washington," on faux marble mounts.
Dia: 5 1/4 in.Provenance
Collection of Skyler Liechty.
Note
An example of the Franklin profile of this pair, in plaster but without inscription, is found in the collection of The Huntington, San Marino, California.
For a rare silvered medallion bearing the profile of Franklin of this pair with the inscription, see Auction Eighty-Five, St. Louis, Missouri, June 30, 2015, Lot 387.
A pair of identical profile portraits of Franklin and Washington, cast in bronze, are found in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York (83.2.83).
The Sevres Porcelain Manufactory also used Renaud's models of Franklin and Washington to produce profile portraits.