[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de]. Deux documents signés par H. Merchant, Clerc du Sénat de l’État de New York ; l.a.s. du Gouverneur DeWitt Clinton, et une autre pièce (3) Albany, Sénat de l’État de New York, 16 février 1825 1 p....
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LA COMMANDE DU PORTRAIT DE LAFAYETTE PAR SAMUEL MORSE (CITY HALL, NEW YORK). L’ÉTAT DE NEW YORK LUI OFFRE SON TRÈS FAMEUX PORTRAIT PEINT PAR SAMUEL MORSE : “A FULL LENGTH LIKENESS OF HIM MIGHT, WITH GREAT PROPRIETY, BE PLACED IN THE SAME CAPITOL WHICH ALREADY CONTAINS THE PORTRAIT OF GEORGE WASHINGTON". EXEMPLAIRES DE LAFAYETTE Promulgation officielle par Horatio Merchant, clerc du Sénat de l’État de New York, de la décison prise de faire un “Act in Honor of General Lafayette", daté du 14 février 1825, “Extract from the minutes" 2. Promulgation officielle signée par le Clerk du Sénat de la Résolution passée par le Comité le 19 janvier 1825 : “It has occurred to the Committee (...) that as some evidence of our estimation of his services, and to preserve some memorial of our distinguished benefactor, a full length likeness of him might, with great propriety, be placed in the same Capitol which already contains the portraits of George Washington and George Clinton, his associates and friends in our Revolutionary contest" ; signé : “I certify the foregoing to be a true extract from the Journals of the Senate of the State of New York, Albany Feby 15. 1825, John F. Bacon clerk of senate", papier filigrané “Owen & Hurlbut", bruni mais très lisible, 3 pp. in-4 3. L.a.s. du Gouverneur DeWitt, de New York, à Lafayette, annonçant l’envoi joint des documents précédents (“an act of this state and certain proceedings of its Legislature"), attendant sa visite, et lui offrant le choix de l’artiste : “I shall thank you to inform me whether you have any preference as to the Artist to be employed to take your full length portrait, and where it will be most convenient for you to sit for him", 2 pp. in-4, brunies, encre pâlie, Albany, 16 février 1825 The artist Lafayette chose was his friend Samuel Morse (the future telegraph pioneer), who was paid $1000 for the commission. Morse’s wife had just died, and Lafayette wrote him a letter of consolation on 12 February (Gottschalk, Guide, p.193). The original sketch of that painting was sold at Sotheby’s New York for $1,360,000 in 2005. It had been consigned by the New York Public Library. The full-length portrait is part of the City Hall portrait collection in New York. This famous portrait was for the first time exhibited in France in the Exposition du centenaire (Musée de l’Orangerie, 1934, n° 210). It was the master piece of the Metropolitan Museum exhibition of Samuel Morse’s retrospective in 1932’s. DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828), who had been re-elected Governor of New York on 1 January 1825, is chiefly remembered as the driving force behind construction of the great Erie Canal which, although not quite completed, played a conspicuous part during Lafayette’s visit. It was to be officially completed on 26 October 1825, soon after his departure.
LA COMMANDE DU PORTRAIT DE LAFAYETTE PAR SAMUEL MORSE (CITY HALL, NEW YORK). L’ÉTAT DE NEW YORK LUI OFFRE SON TRÈS FAMEUX PORTRAIT PEINT PAR SAMUEL MORSE : “A FULL LENGTH LIKENESS OF HIM MIGHT, WITH GREAT PROPRIETY, BE PLACED IN THE SAME CAPITOL WHICH ALREADY CONTAINS THE PORTRAIT OF GEORGE WASHINGTON". EXEMPLAIRES DE LAFAYETTE Promulgation officielle par Horatio Merchant, clerc du Sénat de l’État de New York, de la décison prise de faire un “Act in Honor of General Lafayette", daté du 14 février 1825, “Extract from the minutes" 2. Promulgation officielle signée par le Clerk du Sénat de la Résolution passée par le Comité le 19 janvier 1825 : “It has occurred to the Committee (...) that as some evidence of our estimation of his services, and to preserve some memorial of our distinguished benefactor, a full length likeness of him might, with great propriety, be placed in the same Capitol which already contains the portraits of George Washington and George Clinton, his associates and friends in our Revolutionary contest" ; signé : “I certify the foregoing to be a true extract from the Journals of the Senate of the State of New York, Albany Feby 15. 1825, John F. Bacon clerk of senate", papier filigrané “Owen & Hurlbut", bruni mais très lisible, 3 pp. in-4 3. L.a.s. du Gouverneur DeWitt, de New York, à Lafayette, annonçant l’envoi joint des documents précédents (“an act of this state and certain proceedings of its Legislature"), attendant sa visite, et lui offrant le choix de l’artiste : “I shall thank you to inform me whether you have any preference as to the Artist to be employed to take your full length portrait, and where it will be most convenient for you to sit for him", 2 pp. in-4, brunies, encre pâlie, Albany, 16 février 1825 The artist Lafayette chose was his friend Samuel Morse (the future telegraph pioneer), who was paid $1000 for the commission. Morse’s wife had just died, and Lafayette wrote him a letter of consolation on 12 February (Gottschalk, Guide, p.193). The original sketch of that painting was sold at Sotheby’s New York for $1,360,000 in 2005. It had been consigned by the New York Public Library. The full-length portrait is part of the City Hall portrait collection in New York. This famous portrait was for the first time exhibited in France in the Exposition du centenaire (Musée de l’Orangerie, 1934, n° 210). It was the master piece of the Metropolitan Museum exhibition of Samuel Morse’s retrospective in 1932’s. DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828), who had been re-elected Governor of New York on 1 January 1825, is chiefly remembered as the driving force behind construction of the great Erie Canal which, although not quite completed, played a conspicuous part during Lafayette’s visit. It was to be officially completed on 26 October 1825, soon after his departure.
