Louis-Guillaume Otto, comte de Mosloy

Charles Willson Peale, Louis-Guillaume Otto, comte de Mosloy, ca. 1780, watercolor on ivory, sight 1 ³⁄₈ x 1 in. (3.5 x 2.5 cm) oval, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Natalie Brooks Sears Shippen and William Brush Shippen, 1999.87.6

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Artwork Details

Title: Louis-Guillaume Otto, comte de Mosloy
Artist: Charles Willson Peale
Date: ca. 1780
Location: Not on view
Dimensions: sight 1 ³⁄₈ x 1 in. (3.5 x 2.5 cm) oval
Credit Line: Gift of Natalie Brooks Sears Shippen and William Brush Shippen
Mediums: watercolor
Mediums Description: watercolor on ivory
Classifications: Painting
Miniature
Subjects: Portrait male — Otto, Louis Guillaume, Comte de Mosloy — bust
Occupation — other — aristocrat
Object Number: 1999.87.6
Linked Open Data: https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1999.87.6

Artwork Description

Otto Louis-Guillaume (1754-1817) was a French diplomat who served as minister to the United States in 1779. He was secretary of the French Legation in America in 1782, and returned to France three years later. In Europe he enjoyed a successful career as a diplomat, signing on behalf of Napoleon the Treaty of Amiens in 1802. This treaty achieved fourteen months of peace in Europe during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.