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Snuff Box (Tabatière) with Portrait of Marie Antoinette
The collection record classifies this work as enamel. It is dated 1768. Recorded culture or place: France.
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- Museum title
- Snuff Box (Tabatière) with Portrait of Marie Antoinette
- Date
- 1768
- Culture / origin
- France
- Materials and technique
- watercolor on ivory in a gold and enamel box
- Dimensions
- Image: 3.4 x 2.9 cm (1 5/16 x 1 1/8 in.); Overall: 3.9 x 6 cm (1 9/16 x 2 3/8 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Pierre-François-Mathis de Beaulieu (French); François Dumont (French, 1751–1831)
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1957.408
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
This box was created through the collaboration of two skilled and well-known artisans of the period, master goldsmith Pierre-François-Mathis de Beaulieu and celebrated miniature painter François Dumont. The portrait of Marie Antoinette on the box's lid is painted in Dumont’s own style while those on the sides and bottom of the box take inspiration from the work of painter François Boucher, known for his pastoral scenes in the Rococo style.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of Mrs. Edward B. Greene · CC0
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