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Portrait of Noël-François Charles Caille des Fontaines
Lié Louis Périn (French, 1753–1817)
1795
- Medium
- watercolor on ivory in a later gilt metal frame
- Classification
- Portrait Miniature
- Dimensions
- Framed: 10.5 x 9 cm (4 1/8 x 3 9/16 in.); Diameter: 6.2 cm (2 7/16 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- The Edward B. Greene Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Painted during the tumultuous years of the French Revolution (1789–99), this bailiff court lawyer from the city of Caen appears sensibly modest and restrained.
