False Portrait of Samuel de Champlain

Louis-César-Joseph Ducornet (1806 - 1856)
NAC/ANC C-006643
1854 - lithograph on paper
National Archives of Canada

This is a false portrait of Champlain. It is actually based on a portrait of McMichel Particelli d'Emery engraved by Balthazar Moncornet in 1654. It has been so often used as a portrait of Champlain that attempts to correct this mistake may be impossible.