Box with portrait of a woman 1775–81 Miniature by Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin French The miniature is set in the lid of a tortoiseshell box with gold mounts; the sides and bottom of the box are painted blue with gold stars. The box bears the Paris discharge mark for 1775–81 and the French mark for small imported work, 1838– discharge mark indicates that the miniature was painted at least nine years later than the completion of the box; the second mark shows that the box had been exported from France and was reimported around the middle of the nineteenth somewhat similar mini
Box with portrait of a woman 1775–81 Miniature by Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin French The miniature is set in the lid of a tortoiseshell box with gold mounts; the sides and bottom of the box are painted blue with gold stars. The box bears the Paris discharge mark for 1775–81 and the French mark for small imported work, 1838– discharge mark indicates that the miniature was painted at least nine years later than the completion of the box; the second mark shows that the box had been exported from France and was reimported around the middle of the nineteenth somewhat similar miniature of a woman with a tricolored belt, signed and dated 1790, is in the Musée du Box with portrait of a woman 193810
Size: 1988px × 1988px
Photo credit: © MET/BOT / Alamy / Afripics
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