Portraits

Housed in the Library’s Graphic Arts Collection are 17 portraits documenting and celebrating General Lafayette’s life, dating from the early 1780s to 1832. Highlights include a portrait of Lafayette depicted at the Battle of Yorktown (based on a painting by Jean-Baptiste Le Paeon); a political cartoon, “The Offering to Liberty,” depicting Lafayette marching chained French nobles to the ‘Goddess of the Noble Mind’ who sits atop the rubble of the Bastille; and a mezzotint portraying the 1792 arrest of Lafayette and his subsequent imprisonment in Olmütz, Austria in 1794.

1. [Lafayette].

2. La Fayette.

3. offering to liberty and The offering to liberty

4. Lafayette.

5. Lafayette.

6. Lafayette.

7. La Fayette (Gilbert-Mottier, Marquis de), Depute d'Auvergne aux Etats genreaux // [La Fayette (Gilbert-Mottier, Marquis de), Deputy from Auvergne to the States general].

8. Lafayette, citoyen des deux Mondes // [Lafayette, a citizen of both Worlds].

9. Lafayette.

10. A. L. Marquis de La Fayette, Major General des armees des Etats unis de l' Amerique // [A. L. Marquis de Lafayette, Major General of the armies of the United States of America].