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CultureFrench
Titles
  • Portrait of a Woman
Datec. 1819
MediumWatercolor on ivory, 18k yellow gold, hair, and glass
Dimensions3 1/8 × 2 1/2 in. (7.9 × 6.4 cm)
Credit LineThe Rienzi Collection, bequest of Caroline A. Ross
Object number2005.1648
Non exposé

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Department
Rienzi
ProvenanceCaroline Ross; bequeathed to MFAH, 2005.
Exhibition History"Love Tokens: Portrait Miniatures from the Caroline A. Ross Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 3, 2007–March 3, 2008.

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19th century
Watercolor on ivory, 18k yellow gold, brass, and glass
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Portrait of a Woman
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1791
Watercolor on ivory, base metal, 18k yellow gold, cut steel, hair , and glass
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c. 1810
Watercolor on ivory, 18k yellow gold, pearls, hair, embossed metallic foil, and opaline glass
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Portrait of a Man
Johns
c. 1790
Watercolor on ivory, 18k yellow gold, hair, and glass
2005.1620
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c. 1790
Sepia on ivory, 18k yellow gold, hair, and glass
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Brooch with Portrait of a Woman
John Donaldson
c. 1795
Watercolor on ivory, 12k yellow gold, hair, and glass
2005.1665
Portrait of a Woman
Thomas Hull
c. 1820
Watercolor on ivory, 10k yellow gold, hair, and glass
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Portrait of a Woman
Unknown
c. 1905
Watercolor on ivory, gold, silver, yellow paste gems, hair, pearls, and glass
2005.1624
Brooch with Portrait of a Man
W. H.
c. 1840
Watercolor on ivory, 14k yellow gold, hair, and glass
2005.1655
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Nathaniel Jocelyn
c. 1825
Watercolor on ivory, 18k gold, hair, and glass
2005.1649
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Unknown
c. 1810
Watercolor on ivory (?), enamel, 18k rose gold, gold leaf, hair, and glass
2005.1668
front and back of pendant
Unknown
c. 1780–1790
Watercolor and sepia on ivory, 14k yellow gold, hair, and glass
2005.1804
Unknown French