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Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Motier, Marquis De Lafayette, by Charles Willson Peale, 1779-1780.
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Bust length, facing forward of a man wearing a dark blue uniform coat with buff facings, gold epaulettes with two stars each. He has a buff waistcoat, white shirt, and a black sword across his chest.

Credit: Independence National Historical Park.

As tokens of their mutual admiration, George Washington and Lafayette commissioned portraits of each other from Philadelphia artist Charles Willson Peale. Before Peale sent Lafayette's portrait to Washington's home at Mount Vernon, he painted a bust replica of it for his own museum.  Today, it hangs in the Second Bank of the United States portrait gallery in Philadelphia.

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