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Volume 4
Issue 1
Spring / Summer 2008

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Huntington Frontiers is published semiannually by the Office of Communications. It strives to connect readers more firmly with the rich intellectual life of The Huntington, capturing in news and features the work of researchers, educators curators, and others across a range of disciplines.

This magazine is supported in part by the Annenberg Foundation.

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Spring/Summer 2006 		The face has long been familiar to Americans, from school children to anyone lucky enough to have had a $100 bill in his or her wallet. The Huntington's late-18th-century pastel portrait of Benjamin Franklin is attributed to the French artist Jean Valade, who copied it from a well-known portrait by another French artist, Joseph-Siffrede Duplessis. (In fact, it was a Duplessis image that served as the inspiration for the rendering on the $100 bill.) To commemorate the 300th anniversary of Franklin's birth, we explore the French lineage of a uniquely American icon. Valade's pastel (front cover) and the medallion (on the left) from the Royal Porcelain Manufactory in Sèvres are two of the nearly 300 items from the Huntington's collection of 18th-century French art. A four-year research project of the collection will culminate in a forthcoming catalog.
Fall/Winter 2005
Spring/Summer 2005
 

 

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