1700 – 1800
Age of Enlightenment

Peale's Staircase Group (Portrait of Raphaelle Peale and Titian Ramsay Peale)


Charles Willson Peale, Staircase Group (Portrait of Raphaelle Peale and Titian Ramsay Peale), 1795, oil on canvas, 89-1/2 x 39-3/8 inches / 227.3 x 100 cm (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

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Peales Staircase Group (Portrait of Raphaelle Peale and Titian Ramsay Peale)
Philadelphia, United States
1795

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