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To the Genius of Franklin (Au Génie de Franklin)

1778
18th century
516 x 384 mm (20.3 x 15.1 in.)

Marguerite Gérard, French, (1761–1837)
After Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French, (1732–1806)

Object Type: print

Medium and Support: Etching printed in brown ink on heavyweight white laid paper

State: Second of two states, with full inscription

Print impression quality: Very good

Marks: Inscribed below image: “Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tirannis” [“He seized the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from the tyrants.”]

Marks: Watermark: Three-line proprietary

Bibliography: Wildenstein cat. no. 27, as by Fragonard; Carlson and Ittmann, Regency to Empire, cat. no. 78, pp. 232–233; Rena M. Hoisington and Perrin Stein, “Sous les yeux de Fragonard: The Prints of Marguerite Gérard,” Print Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 2 (June 2012), pp. 142–162, reproduction of Metropolitan Museum of Art impression as fig. 131, p. 154; Baudicour (on Gérard) does not record this print; Mary D. Sheriff, “‘Au Génie de Franklin’: An Allegory by J.-H. Fragonard,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 127, no. 3 (1983), pp. 180–193; Pierre Rosenberg, “Franklin and Fragonard,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 150, no. 4 (2006), pp. 575–590.

Credit Line: Friends of the Davison Art Center funds, 1996

Accession Number: 1996.24.1

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allegory, American Studies, government

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plate Dimensions: 516 x 384 mm (20.3 x 15.1 in.)

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Marguerite Gérard, French, (1761–1837) Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French, (1732–1806) . To the Genius of Franklin (Au Génie de Franklin), 1778. Etching printed in brown ink on heavyweight white laid paper. Second of two states, with full inscription. plate : 516 x 384 mm (20.3 x 15.1 in.). DAC accession number 1996.24.1. Friends of the Davison Art Center funds, 1996. Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (photo: M. Johnston) .

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