Artist
GrandbarbeFrench, 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)
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
RienziObject Type
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.
Cataloguing data may change with further research.
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Sampson Towgood Roche
c. 1785–1790
Watercolor on ivory, 10k yellow gold, hair, and glass
2005.1646
Unknown English
c. 1810–1820
Watercolor on ivory, 10k rose gold, pearls, hair, metallic embossed foil, and opaline glass
2005.1654
J. T. Beaumont
c. 1795
Watercolor on ivory, 10k rose gold, seed pearls, hair, guilloché enamel, and glass
2005.1640
Unknown Italian
c. 1810
Watercolor on ivory, watercolor on vellum, gilt, and glass (each side of pendant has a different miniature with different base material)
2005.1741.A,.B
Sir William Charles Ross
c. 1840
Watercolor on ivory, gilt, velvet, silk, and glass
2005.1621
Unknown
c. 1750–1770
Watercolor on ivory, 18k rose gold, and glass
2005.1727.A,.B
