Date: 1893
Credit Line: Bequest of Anthony J. Drexel
Means of Accession: Bequest
Made/Created
Artist
Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant
Date made
1893
Place
Country
United States
Continent
North America
Inscription/Signature/Marks
Notes
Signature: LR, Benjamin Constant 1893
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall Dimensions: Framed
Height
66-1/2 in
Width
57-1/2 in
Dimension Description
Canvas Dimensions: Unframed
Height
45-1/4 in
Width
37 in
Exhibition
Curator Pick of the Month
Interpretative Labels
Label Type
Curator Pick of the Month
Label
Anthony J. Drexel (1826-1893) was the founder of Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry. He was not a self-promoter and was notorious for not wanting his portrait done and in many of our portraits he looks somewhat uncomfortable. He was persuaded by his lifelong friend and businessman George W. Childs to do this painting, but it could not be hung after his death. This painting painted by the French artist Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant (1845-1902) is now hanging in the Paul Peck Alumni Center.
General Notes
Note Type
Cataloging Note
Note
Additional versions # 366 and 05.005.0004
Note Type
Historical Note
Note
This portrait is the first of the Constant portraits of A.J. Drexel commissioned along with portrait of George W. Childs in 1893
