Joseph Duplessis
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Joseph-Siffred Duplessis was a French painter known for the clarity and immediacy of his portraits.
Self-portrait of Duplessis, 1801
Duplessis' Benjamin Franklin on the U.S. hundred dollar bill
Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain, 1774
Portrait of Christoph Willibald Gluck, 1775
The United States one-hundred-dollar bill is a denomination of United States currency. The first United States Note with this value was issued in 1862, and the Federal Reserve Note version was first p
Joseph Duplessis
…Académie. His portrait of Benjamin Franklin (circa 1785), more than any other, has fixed the image of Franklin for posterity since it is reproduced on the U.S. hundred dollar bill. His portrait of the financier Jacques Necker hung at Voltaire's Coppet Castle. Several reduced versions were made, one of which is at the Louvre. Many…
Obverse of the $100 Federal Reserve Note
Reverse of the $100 Federal Reserve Note
1863 $100 Legal Tender note The first $100 Gold Certificates were issued with a bald eagle to the left and large green 100 in the middle of the obverse.
1880 $100 Legal Tender (1869 version) A new $100 United States Note was issued with a portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the left of the obverse and an allegorical figure representing architecture on the right.