Snuff Box with a Portrait of a Lady
1803
Pierre Louis Bouvier
Pierre Louis Bouvier (Swiss, 1765–1836)
Decorative Art and Design
Snuff Box with a Portrait of a Lady, 1803. Pierre Louis Bouvier (Swiss, 1765–1836). Watercolor on ivory; tortoise-shell lining; gilt metal rings; diameter: 7.8 cm (3 1/16 in.); box: 7.8 x 2.6 cm (3 1/16 x 1 in.); diameter of frame: 8.2 cm (3 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.285
- Maker/Artist
- Bouvier, Pierre Louis
- Classification
- Portrait Miniature
- Formatted Medium
- watercolor on ivory; tortoise-shell lining; gilt metal rings
- Medium
- watercolor, ivory, tortoise-shell, lining, gilt, metal, rings
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 7.8 cm (3 1/16 in.); Box: 7.8 x 2.6 cm (3 1/16 x 1 in.); Diameter of frame: 8.2 cm (3 1/4 in.)
- Departments
- Decorative Art and Design
- Accession Number
- 2008.285
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Exhibitions
- Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives, Main European Rotation (Gallery 202), January 17, 2011 - July 18, 2011.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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