Investigating a Peale in Paris
American Philosophical Society 104 S. 5th St., Philadelphia, PA, United StatesA portrait of George Washington, leaning on a cannon on the battlefield at Princeton, has hung in the Paris residence of the American ambassador to France since the 1980s. Some credited the painting to Charles Willson Peale, but its execution appeared to fall short of many of Peale’s portraits. In 2019, the Department of State’s […]