Box with portrait of a young girl with the initials DE
The miniature is set in a sweetmeat box of rock crystal with two-color gold mounts. It has seven marks, including an illegible maker’s mark and the Paris mark for 1775–76. On the reverse of the miniature is a plaque with the monogram DE.
Richard Allen and Edwin Boucher have attributed this miniature to Peter Adolf Hall, an attribution accepted by Bodo Hofstetter but not by Pierrette Jean-Richard.
Richard Allen and Edwin Boucher have attributed this miniature to Peter Adolf Hall, an attribution accepted by Bodo Hofstetter but not by Pierrette Jean-Richard.
Artwork Details
- Title: Box with portrait of a young girl with the initials DE
- Artist: Miniature attributed to Pierre-Adolphe Hall (Swedish (active Paris), 1739–1793)
- Date: 1775–76
- Culture: French, Paris
- Medium: Glass, gold; ivory laid on card
- Dimensions: Box: 2 3/8 × 1 7/8 in. (6 × 4.8 cm); Miniature (oval): 1 1/4 × 1 in. (3.2 × 2.5 cm)
- Classifications: Metalwork-Gold and Platinum, Miniatures
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.190.1135
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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