Franklin's popularity with the French during his tenure as the Minister of the Continental Congress to Paris led to numerous portraits and medallions. This one, produced by Jean Baptiste Nini at the same time John Floyd passed through Paris, shows Franklin in his coonskin hat, which he frequently wore. One of these passed to Pat Stevens, Jr., during WWI from an appreciative family in Belgium.For many years it was displayed in the main room at Oak Hill. This photo is of the medallion in the Franklin Institute Collection, Philadelphia.
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