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Portrait of Maria Franklin, Mrs. DeWitt Clinton

Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Mémin
1770-1852

Portrait of Maria Franklin, Mrs. DeWitt Clinton

1797
Pen and black ink and wash.
2019.52:2
Notes
Framed together with 2019.52:1.
Saint-Mémin produced these portraits of the emerging politician DeWitt Clinton and his wife while the artist was living in New York, having fled France during the Revolution. In 1796-97 he was working closely with Thomas Bluget De Valdenuit to learn the art of portrait making. The drawings likely commemorate DeWitt Clinton's marriage to Maria Franklin in 1796.
Associated names
Valdenuit, Thomas Bluget de, 1763-1846.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department