Portrait of a Boy

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  • Portrait of a Boy
Datec. 1850
MediumWatercolor on alabaster
DimensionsSight: 5 1/8 × 4 1/4 in. (13 × 10.8 cm)
Frame: 8 3/4 × 7 7/8 in. (22.2 × 20 cm)
Credit LineThe Rienzi Collection, bequest of Caroline A. Ross
Object number2005.1715
Not on view

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Department
Rienzi
Provenance[Morning Glory Antiques, East Orange,New Jersey]; purchased by Caroline Ross, September. 2002; 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.

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