Souvenir with portrait of a man
1778–79
Medium
Gold, composition; enamel; ivory
Dimensions
3 9/16 × 2 in. (9 × 5.1 cm); miniature, oval: 1 1/8 × 7/8 in. (2.9 × 2.2 cm)
Classification
Metalwork-Gold and Platinum
Culture
French, Paris
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Accession Number
17.190.1312a–c
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...