Box with miniature portrait of a woman
ca. 1790
Medium
Gold, tortoiseshell, glass, ivory
Dimensions
1 11/16 in. × 3 in. (4.3 × 7.6 cm); Miniature: 2 1/8 × 1 3/4 in. (5.4 × 4.4 cm)
Classification
Metalwork-Gold and Platinum|Miniatures
Culture
French
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Accession Number
17.190.1139a, b
Tags
About the Artist
French Painter
"French Painter" is a scholarly attribution designation used by art historians and museum curators to catalogue paintings produced in France — or by artists trained in the French tradition — when the specific creator cannot be identified with confidence. Rather than leave a work without provenance context or assign it speculatively to a named artist, curators apply this designation alongside an ap...