# Portrait of Benjamin Franklin [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DUPLESSIS, Joseph-Siffred]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 73 x 59 cm ## Commentary Portrait of Benjamin Franklin c. 1779 Oil on canvas, 73 x 59 cm Private collection This painting is one of the numerous existing versions of Duplessis's Franklin portraits. Most of these portraits fall into two categories: the 'fur coat' type as seen in the original version in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, new York, and the latter 'grey coat' type, of which the present painting is an example. The prototype for the grey coat portrait is a pastel, executed by Duplessis in 1783, and now located in the New York Public Library. ## Related artworks - [Christophe Gabriel Allegrain, Sculptor]() - [Cristoph Wilibald von Gluck at the Spinet]() - [Landscape in Blue Monochrome]() - [Portrait of Benjamin Franklin]() - [Portrait of Monsieur de Buissy]() - [Portrait of the Comte d'Angiviller]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()