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Portrait of a Man

ArtistFrench, birth and death dates not known
CultureFrench
Titles
  • Portrait of a Man
Date1845
MediumWatercolor on ivory
DimensionsSight: 4 1/4 × 3 in. (10.8 × 7.6 cm)
Frame: 7 × 6 1/2 in. (17.8 × 16.5 cm)
Credit LineThe Rienzi Collection, bequest of Caroline A. Ross
Object number2005.1692
Not on view

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Department
Rienzi
ProvenancePrivate collection, Dijon, France; [Things Gone By Jewelry, Reedsville, West Virginia]; purchased by Caroline Ross, October, 2001; bequeathed to MFAH, 2005.
Exhibition History"Love Tokens: Portrait Miniatures from the Caroline A. Ross Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Alice Pratt Brown Gallery and Rienzi; Drawing Room, November 3, 2007-March 3, 2008.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Marked in red ong the right edge.

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