Allegorical Figures of France and Fame Honoring a Bust of Benjamin Franklin
Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune French
Subject Benjamin Franklin American
Not on view
A seated royal female symbolizing France holds a smoking staff and looks a male figure of Fame (with a flame on his forehead, a spear and a shield decorated with fleur-de-lys). Fame embraces a bust of Franklin (who wears a fur hat) on a pedestal. The French cockerel struts below the statue, near a cap of Liberty. At lower right a leopard lies on its back (holding an open book), near a shattered canon with additional canon in the background, and a sailing ship near bolts of lightning behind at right.
