Gilbert Motier Marquis de La Fayette [engraving]

Gilbert Motier Marquis de La Fayette [engraving]

1895

1 print ; on sheet 25 x 18 cm., matted 21 x 15 cm. and framed 28 x 23 cm.

P&E L1993.765m

Bust, in profile, to the left, in uniform with queue.. On his left lapel hang the Ordre of St. Louis and the Eagle of the Soceity 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 unframed. See P&E L1994.930m
Lafayette was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati from France. Inscribed on cardboard inside frame (now removed) "Gift of Col. G. Creighton Webb, Nov. 14, 1939."

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