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Snuff Box (Tabatière) with Portrait of Marie Antoinette
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About this work
This box was created through the collaboration of two skilled and well-known artisans of the period, master goldsmith Pierre-François-Mathis de Beaulieu and celebrated miniature painter François Dumont. The portrait of Marie Antoinette on the box's lid is painted in Dumont’s own style while those on the sides and bottom of the box take inspiration from the work of painter François Boucher, known for his pastoral scenes in the Rococo style.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineSnuff Box (Tabatière) with Portrait of Marie Antoinette, 1768. Manufactured by Pierre-François-Mathis de Beaulieu (French), miniatures by François Dumont (French, 1751–1831). Watercolor on ivory in a gold and enamel box; image: 3.4 x 2.9 cm (1 5/16 x 1 1/8 in.); overall: 3.9 x 6 cm (1 9/16 x 2 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Edward B. Greene, 1957.408
