Snuff Box (Tabatière) with Portrait of Marie Antoinette
box by Pierre-François-Mathis de Beaulieu (French)
painter François Dumont (French, 1751–1831)
1768
- Medium
- watercolor on ivory in a gold and enamel box
- Classification
- Enamel
- Dimensions
- 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.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Decorative Art and Design
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Edward B. Greene
- 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
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.
