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<p>[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 376296, member: 33"]Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has the original of this miniature you found in Wikipedia. <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/24.19.1/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/24.19.1/" rel="nofollow">https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/24.19.1/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I do think the other might possibly be based on it. More research needed, because it says Trumbull did small portraits that were studies for larger ones. And this one does look like a sketch or study to me... So perhaps there is a large portrait by Trumbull, and the print in the original post was taken from that?</p><p><br /></p><p>In this description of a <b>different</b> portrait from the Monticello website it says that Trumbull painted three miniatures of Jefferson. <a href="https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/jefferson-portrait-john-trumbull-painting" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/jefferson-portrait-john-trumbull-painting" rel="nofollow">https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/jefferson-portrait-john-trumbull-painting</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 376296, member: 33"]Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has the original of this miniature you found in Wikipedia. [URL]https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/24.19.1/[/URL] I do think the other might possibly be based on it. More research needed, because it says Trumbull did small portraits that were studies for larger ones. And this one does look like a sketch or study to me... So perhaps there is a large portrait by Trumbull, and the print in the original post was taken from that? In this description of a [B]different[/B] portrait from the Monticello website it says that Trumbull painted three miniatures of Jefferson. [URL]https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/jefferson-portrait-john-trumbull-painting[/URL][/QUOTE]
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