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Benjamin Franklin

Jean-Antoine Houdon
Sculpture
Owner: Pushkin Museum

Benjamin Franklin

Unidentified Artist
Painting
early 19th century
Owner: Private collection

Benjamin Franklin

Jean-Baptiste Nini
Sculpture
1777
Owner: Musée des Beaux Arts, Angers

Louis XVI Extends to Benjamin Franklin the Treaty of Friendship and of Commerce

Charles Gabriel Sauvage Lemire
Sculpture
c. 1780-85
Owner: Musée National de la Cooperation Franco-Américain du Château de Blérancourt

Benjamin Franklin

Painting
after 1778
Owner: Private Collection

Louis XVI remettant à Benjamin Franklin le traités signés entre la France et les États-Unis le 6 Février 1778

Charles Gabriel Sauvage Lemire
Sculpture
c. 1780-85
Owner: Musée Carnavalet

Bust of Benjamin Franklin

Jean-Antoine Houdon
Sculpture
1778
Owner: Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

Jean-Antoine Houdon
Sculpture
1779
Owner: British Rail Pension Fund Collection

Benjamin Franklin

Jean Baptiste Weyler
Jewelry
c. 1782
Owner: Private collection

Sketch of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Bache
Drawing
1790
Owner: American Philosophical Society

Study of Benjamin Franklin

Edwin Austin Abbey
Drawing
c. 1902-11
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery

Benjamin Franklin

Thomas Sully
Painting
1834
Owner: Benjamin Franklin Pepper

Benjamin Franklin

Medal
1894
Owner: Private Collection

Benjamin Franklin

Unidentified Artist
Painting
after 1785
Benjamin Franklin Cup (Gobelet

Benjamin Franklin Cup (Gobelet "Litron")

Etienne-Henry Le Guay Elder
Decorative Arts
c. 1779
Owner: Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens

Benjamin Frankiln

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture

Benjamin Franklin

Richard Saltonstall Greenough
Sculpture
1854
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Bust of Benjamin Franklin

Ferdinand Barbedienne
Sculpture
19th century

Benjamin Franklin

Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Painting
1777
Owner: American Philosophical Society

Figure Group of Louis XVI and Benjamin Franklin

Charles Gabriel Sauvage Lemire
Sculpture
c. 1780-85
Owner: U.S. Department of State

Benjamin Franklin

Howard Elmer House
Painting
late 19th-mid 20th century
Owner: Private collection

Franklin at the Court of France

Unidentified Artist
Print

Benjamin Franklin

Jean-Antoine Houdon
Sculpture
1899
Owner: Grolier Club

Benjamin Franklin

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
after 1778

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