Checklist of the Exhibition
Measurements are in order of height, width, and, where applicable, depth. For works on paper, the measurements are for the
sheet, unless otherwise stated.
Paintings
1. Joseph Boze (1744–1826)
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, 1790
Oil on canvas, 36 x 28½ inches
Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society
2. F. (or J.) Carpentier
Portrait of Lafayette, ca. 1785
Oil on canvas, 21¾ x 17 7/8 inches
Lafayette College, Easton, PA. Gift of Stuart W. Jackson, 1958
3. Jean-Baptiste Laperche (Marguerite-Thérèse LePrince) (1743–1798)
Marquis de Lafayette, 1788
On ivory, 4¾ x 3½ inches
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Gift of Harriet Sarah Walker
4. Jean-Baptiste Le Paon (1736–1785)
Lafayette at Yorktown, ca. 1783–1785
Oil on canvas, 36½ x 28¾ inches
Lafayette College, Easton, PA. Gift of Helen Fahnstock Hubbard in memory of her husband, John Hubbard, Harvard class of 1892
5. Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791–1872)
Marquis de Lafayette, 1825
Oil on canvas, 29¾ x 24¾ inches
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
6. Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827)
Marquis de Lafayette, 1779
Signed and dated 1779
Oil on canvas, 48½ x 40 inches
Washington and Lee University, Washington-Custis-Lee Collection, Lexington, VA
7. Rembrandt Peale (1778–1860)
The Marquis de Lafayette, 1825
Oil on canvas, 34½ x 27 3/8 inches
Inscribed lower right: “R. Peale pinxit.”
Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1921 (21.19)
8. Artist Unknown
Portrait of Lafayette at Metz Garrison, ca. 1774–1775
Oil on canvas, 22 x 18 inches
Lafayette College, Easton, PA. Gift of Stuart W. Jackson, 1958
Sculpture
9. Paul Wayland Bartlett (1865–1925)
Marquis de Lafayette, 1899–1907
Bronze, 58 x 38½ x 21½ inches
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD
10. Paul Wayland Bartlett (1865–1925)
Head of Marquis de Lafayette (Lafayette Monument, Paris, France), 1899–1907
Bronze, 12¾ x 8 3/8 x 9¾ inches
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Armistead Peter III
11. Cyrus E. Dallin (1861–1944)
Lafayette (model for colossal statue), 1889
Bronze, 42¼ x 43 1/8 x 15 3/8 inches
Inscribed top of base: C. E. Dallin / 188[?]; at left: theibaut freres / foundeurs / paris
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, Thomas W. Evans Collection
12. Jules Dalou (1838–1902)
Statuette of the Marquis de Lafayette, ca. 1883
Bronze, 13 1/2 x 6 x 6 3/4 inches
Gift to Cornell University from Arthur H. Dean, Class of 1919, and Mary Marden Dean
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University 75.024.001
13. Horatio Greenough (1805–1852)
Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, ca. 1833
Marble, 13 x 11¼ x 7 inches
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Bequest of Mrs. Horatio Greenough
14. Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741–1828)
Life Mask of the Marquis de Lafayette, 1785
Plaster, 12 ¼ x 7 x 10 ¾ inches
Gift to Cornell University from Arthur H. Dean, Class of 1919, and Mary Marden Dean
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University 74.010.002
15. Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741–1828)
Marquis de Lafayette, before 1789
Plaster, 29 3/8 x 20 1/8 x 19¾ inches
Boston Athenæum, Purchase, 1828
16. Jean Ossaye Mombur (1850–1896)
Lafayette á Yorktown, after 1875
Bronze, height 7 inches
David Bishop Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
17. Luigi Persico (1791–1860)
Marquis de Lafayette, 1824
Plaster, 26 x 17 x 12 inches
Inscribed on front of socle: “Genl. Lafayette / Our Nation’s Guest”
Boston Athenæum, Gift of James Howe, 2007
18. Baccarat (attrib.)
Lafayette, ca. 1815-1825
Sulfide, glass, and brass, 4 1/16 x 2 x ½ inches
Inscribed at bust termination: “LA FAYETTE
Collection of Robert and Elizabeth Owens
Coins and Medals
19. Charles Edward Barber (1840–1917)
The Lafayette Dollar, 1900
Silver
Courtesy of The American Numismatic Society, New York
20. Victor David Brenner (1871–1924)
Universal Exposition, Paris, Medal, 1900
Bronze with gold plating
Courtesy of The American Numismatic Society, New York
21. Pierre Jean David d’Angers (1788–1856)
Le General Lafayette, 1830
Bronze
Cornell University Library, Division of Rare Books and Manuscripts
22. John Flanagan (1865–1952)
Lafayette Medal, 1936
Bronze
Courtesy of The American Numismatic Society, New York
23. John Flanagan (1865–1952)
Lafayette Medal, 1934
Bronze
Courtesy of The American Numismatic Society, New York
24. Moritz Fürst (1782–1841)
General Lafayette Medal, 1825
Silver
Courtesy of The American Numismatic Society, New York
25. Henry Augustus Lukeman (1872–1935), after Daniel Chester French (1850–1931)
Lafayette Memorial, Brooklyn, 1917
Bronze
Courtesy of The American Numismatic Society, New York
26. Artist unknown
Lafayette and Washington, 1824
Copper
Courtesy of The American Numismatic Society, New York
27. Artist unknown
Lafayette in Uniform, 1781
Silver
Cornell University Library, Division of Rare Books and Manuscripts
28. Artist unknown
Lafayette, Thaddeus Kosciusko, & George Washington, 1834
Bronze
Cornell University Library, Division of Rare Books and Manuscripts
Works-On-Paper
29. Thomas Oldham Barlow (1824–1889), after Thomas P. Rossiter (1818–1871) and Louis R. Mignot (1831–1870)
The Home of Washington, ca. 1863
Engraving, 22 1/8 x 31 7/8 inches
Boston Athenæum, Gift of Howard Witherall Lang, 1964
30. Nathaniel Currier (1813–1888)
La Fayette at the Tomb of Washington, Mount Vernon, Va., 1845
Lithograph, 18 7/8 x 14 inches
David Bishop Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
31. Currier & Ives
Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, 1876
Lithograph, 12 7/8 x 15 5/8 inches
David Bishop Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
32. Decisy after Joseph-Désiré Court (1797–1865)
Marquis de Lafayette, n.d.
Engraving, 23 x 18½ inches
David Bishop Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
33. François Séraphin Delpech (1778–1825), after Henri Grévedon (1776–1860)
Lafayette, 1824
Lithograph, 17½ x 13 inches
Boston Athenæum
34. John De Mare (active 1860s), after Alonzo Chappel (1828–1887)
Lafayette [at Yorktown], 1863
Engraving, colored, 10½ x 8 inches
Johnson, Fry & Co., Publishers
David Bishop Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
35. Isidore Laurent Deroy (1797–1886), after Alvan Fisher (1792–1863)
La Grange: North View, 1826
Lithograph, 11¾ x 16 7/8 inches
Paris: François Le Villian
Boston Athenæum, Purchase, 1886
36. William Faden (1749–1836)
Battle of Brandywine in Which the Rebels were Defeated September the 11th, 1777, by the Army under the Command of General Sr. William Howe, 1777
Engraving, hand-colored (map), 10 x 9 inches
Cornell University Library, Division of Rare Books and Manuscripts
37. Jean Mathias Fontaine (1791–1853), after Louis-Charles-Auguste Couder (1790–1873)
Siège d’York-Town, n.d.
Engraving, 11 x 12 7/8 inches (image)
David Bishop Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
38. Jean-Jacques Frilley (b. 1797), after Tony Johannot (1803–1852)
Lafayette en Amérique, ca. 1826
Engraving, 12 x 9½ inches
David Bishop Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
39. Ed. Gosselin, after Edme Quenedey des Ricets (1756–1830)
Gilbert Motier Marquis de La Fayette, 1895
Aquatint, 13 7/8 x 10 7/8 inches
David Bishop Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
40. Henry Bryan Hall (1808–1884)
Washington, La-Fayette and Greene Sheltered in a Farm House, 1857
Engraving, 9 5/8 x 12 inches
G. P. Putnam & Co., Publishers
David Bishop Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
41. Henry Bryan Hall (1808–1884), after Alonzo Chappel (1828–1887)
Valley Forge—Washington & Lafayette, 1856
Engraving, 7½ x 10½ inches (image)
Martin, Johnson & Co., Publisher
David Bishop Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
42. Charles Henry Jeens (1827–1879)
Lafayette Wounded, n.d.
Engraving, 9½ x 12 inches
David Bishop Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
43. John Karst (1836–1922)
Lafayette at the Tomb of Washington, n.d.
Etching, 10 5/8 x 12½ inches
David Bishop Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
44. Langlumé, after Mademoiselle Marie Melani d’Hervilly (1800–1878)
Le Gnl. Lafayette Posant, le 17 Juin 1825, n.d.
Lithograph, 8¼ x 11¼ inches
David Bishop Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
45. Noël Le Mire (1724–1801), after Jean-Baptiste Le Paon (1738–1785)
Conclusion de la Campagne de 1781 en Virginie, ca. 1781
Engraving, 19 3/8 x 13 inches
Boston Athenæum
46. Noël Le Mire (1724–1801), after Jean-Baptiste Le Paon (1738–1785)
Le Genéral Washington, ca. 1781
Engraving, 19 7/8 x 14 inches
Boston Athenæum, Purchase, 1888
47. Jean-Marie Leroux, after Ary Scheffer (1795–1858)
Lafayette, 1824
Engraving, 21¾ x 14¾ inches
Cornell University Library, Division of Rare Books and Manuscripts
48. Achille Moreau, after Jean Dubouloz
Lafayette’s Dream on the Deck of the Brandywine, ca. 1825
Etching and aquatint, 17 x 22½ inches
Cornell University Library, Division of Rare Books and Manuscripts
49. John Wesley Paradise (1809-1862), after John Gadsby Chapman (1808-1889), after Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827)
Washington, aet. 40, 1842
Engraving, 9/12 x 5 ¾ inches
Boston Athenæum
50. Charles Etienne Pierre Motte (1785–1836), after F. Loritz
Lafayette, The Friend of Washington, n.d.
Color lithograph, 19 x 14 inches
D. W. Kellogg & Co., publishers
David Bishop Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
51. Clara Greenleaf Perry (1871–1960)
Chavaniac-Lafayette, 1934
Lithograph, 19¾ x 25¾ inches
Boston Athenæum, Gift of the artist, 1955
52. Paul Revere (1735–1818)
A View of Part of the Town of Boston in New-England and Brittish [sic] Ships of War Landing Their Troops!, 1768, 1770
Engraving, hand-colored, 10 5/8 x 16½ inches
Boston Athenæum, Purchase, George Francis Parkman Fund, 1955
53. Alexander Hay Ritchie (1822–1895)
Washington and His Generals, ca. 1870
Etching and engraving, hand-colored, 28¾ x 40 inches
Boston Athenæum, Purchase, Washington Fund, 1978
54. Albert Rosenthal (1863–1939), after Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827)
Marquis de Lafayette, 1894
Etching, 14 x 11 inches
David Bishop Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
55. Albert Rosenthal (1863–1939), after Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827)
Madame de La Fayette (Adrienne de Noailles), 1894
Etching, 14 x 11 inches
David Bishop Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
56. Tanner, Vallance, Kearny & Co., William Allen (fl. 1810s), after John Francis Renault (fl. 1780s–1810s)
The British Surrendering Their Arms to Gen. Washington after Their Defeat at York Town in Virginia October 1781, 1819
Engraving, 23 7/8 x 34¼ inches
Boston Athenæum, Gift of Howard Witherall Lang, 1964
57. Charles P. Tholey (d. 1898)
Head Quarters of La Fayette at the Battle of Brandywine, n.d.
Engraving, 9 3/8 x 10½ inches (image)
David Bishop Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
58. Charles P. Tholey (d. 1898)
Genl. Lafayette’s Departure from Mount Vernon 1784, 1868
Lithograph, 22 x 28 3/8 inches
David Bishop Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
59. Artist unknown
Gen. La Fayette Storming the Redoubt at Yorktown, n. d.
Engraving, 13 7/8 x 10 7/8 inches
David Bishop Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
60. Artist unknown
Apotheose de Lafayette, n.d.
Aquatint, 10 3/8 x 12½ inches
David Bishop Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
61. Artist unknown, after Alonzo Chapell (1828–1887)
Baron de Kalb Introducing Lafayette to Silas Deane, 1879
Engraving, 12 x 9½ inches (image)
David Bishop Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
Manuscripts and Artifacts
62. Letter, Lafayette, Philadelphia, to his wife, Adrienne de Noilles de Lafayette, May–June 1777
Cornell University Library, Division of Rare Books and Manuscripts
63. Letter, Lafayette, Philadelphia, to his wife, Adrienne de Noilles de Lafayette, September 12 [1777]
Cornell University Library, Division of Rare Books and Manuscripts
64. Lafayette’s Military Plan of the Colonial Army Camp at Brandywine, September 1777
Cornell University Library, Division of Rare Books and Manuscripts
65. Letter, Lafayette, Valley Forge, to George Washington, January 5, 1778
David Bishop Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
66. Letter, Lafayette, Valley Forge, to his wife, Adrienne de Noilles de Lafayette, January 6, 1778
Cornell University Library, Division of Rare Books and Manuscripts
67. Letter: Lafayette to George Washington, March 30, 1782
David Bishop Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
68. Letter: Lafayette to George Washington, April 12, 1782
David Bishop Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
69. Letter, Lafayette to George Washington, December 21, 1784
David Bishop Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
70. Letter, Thomas Jefferson, Washington, DC, to Lafayette, November 4, 1803
Cornell University Library, Division of Rare Books and Manuscripts
71. Lafayette, Words at the Tomb of Washington, Mt. Vernon, October 17, 1824
Cornell University Library, Division of Rare Books and Manuscripts
72. Sprig of tree plucked from the grave of Washington for Lafayette
Cornell University Library, Division of Rare Books and Manuscripts
73. Wooden fragment from the frigate Alliance presented to Lafayette by John Fanning Watson
David Bishop Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
74. Maker unknown
Lafayette au Tombeau de Washington, ca. 1824–1825
Snuff box, ebony with relief engraving; 3 x 1½ x 1½ inches
David Bishop Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
75. Maker unknown
Small metal tray with image of Lafayette at the tomb of Washington, ca. 1824–1825
David Bishop Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
