NINI, Giovanni Battista

Urbino, Italy 1717 - Chaumont-sur-Loire, Loir-et-Cher 1786

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

c. 1777

cast terracotta (terre de Chaumont)

medallion

inscribed: B. FRANKLIN AMERICAIN

Acc. No.: 48643

Credit Line: Gift of C. Richard Knapp

Photo credit: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

© Artist : public domain

© Artist : public domain

San Francisco, California, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor

legionofhonor.famsf.org

Provenance

• Gift of C. Richard Knapp

Bibliography

• See "Nini Medallion" on The Franklin Institute website.
• 2015 Margolis
  Richard Margolis, Benjamin Franklin in Terra Cotta. Portrait Medallions by Jean-Baptiste Nini at the Chateau of Chaumont. Medallions of Franklin and of American Interest by Jean-Martin Renaud. Original Models for the Libertas Americana Medal in Terra Cotta by Clodion and in Plaster by Augustin Dupré, Gahanna, Kolbe & Fanning, 2015

Related works

• Executed after a drawing done in Paris by the son of the banker Thomas Walpole.

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