Gilbert Motier Marquis de La Fayette [engraving]

Gilbert Motier Marquis de La Fayette [engraving]

1895

1 print ; 23 x 15 cm. on sheet 25 x 18 cm.

P&E L1994.930m

Bust, in profile, to the left, in uniform with queue.. On his left lapel hangs the Ordre of St. Louis and the Eagle of the Society of the Cincinnati. Aquatint. Quenedey Type. Circular with artist and engraver names appearing outside below the border. Under the title it reads: "Sa belle conduite au siege de York-Town, en Virginie, le fit elire en 1787 membre de l'Assemblee des notables et en 1789 depute a l'Assemblee Nationale."
This portrait is similar to a number of contemporary portraits of Lafayette when he was Commander of the National Guard during the French Revolution.
Library has another copy, which is framed. See P&E L1993.765 framed.
Lafayette was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati from France.

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