Portrait of a Man

Art Historical Context

**Portrait of a Man** by Jeanne Philiberteoux, created around 1790, captures the elegance of late 18th-century French portraiture in a remarkably intimate scale. This ivory miniature, measuring just 2¼ inches in diameter, exemplifies the exquisite craftsmanship of the Rococo-to-Neoclassical transition. Ledoux, a skilled Parisian miniaturist and one of the few women thriving in this niche during the Revolutionary era, specialized in these delicate, portable likenesses often worn as jewelry or kept in snuffboxes as personal talismans. Painted on ivory—a medium prized for its smooth, luminous su...