There are believed to be only two oil portraits painted by Greuze using the pastel study of Franklin that he drew in 1777: one in a rectangular format, and this oval one.
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{{Information| |Description =Benjamin Franklin in 1777 |Source =originally uploaded to en.wikipedia by Nonenmac, |Date =1777 |Author =Jean-Baptiste Greuze |Permission =Public domain because of age |other_versions =- }}