Artist

Louis Benjamin Huber Defeuille

Portrait of Louis Benjamin Huber Defeuille
Portrait of Louis Benjamin Huber Defeuille

Louis Benjamin Huber Defeuille is a Romanticism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Louis Benjamin Huber Defeuille was a Parisian portraitist of the 1800s who worked in miniature, painting on slivers of ivory smaller than a postage stamp. He rendered the future First Lady Dolley Madison's curls at that scale, and his 1809 plaque of Benjamin Franklin hangs in the Met's American Wing.

Works by Louis Benjamin Huber Defeuille

Collections represented

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