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General Baron de Steuben

Engraver Benoit Louis Prevost French
After Pierre Eugène du Simitière American, born Switzerland
1781
Not on view

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: General Baron de Steuben
  • Series/Portfolio: Portraits des généreaux; ministres et magistrats que se rendu célèbres dans le Révolution des Treize États-unis de l'Amérique Septentional, Paris 1781
  • Engraver: Benoit Louis Prevost (French, 1747–ca. 1804)
  • Artist: After Pierre Eugène du Simitière (American (born Switzerland), Geneva 1737–1784 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
  • Sitter: Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (American, born Magdeburg, Germany 1730–1794 Steuben, New York)
  • Date: 1781
  • Medium: Etching and engraving; first state (without title)
  • Dimensions: Image: 5 in. × 3 7/16 in. (12.7 × 8.8 cm)
    Plate: 7 1/8 in. × 5 1/8 in. (18.1 × 13 cm)
    Sheet: 7 5/8 × 5 5/16 in. (19.4 × 13.5 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924
  • Object Number: 24.90.661
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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