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Snuffbox
Also titled Snuifdoos
Jean Saint (Saint-Lô, ca. –na 1)
1750
- Medium
- gold (metal)
- Classification
- snuffbox
- Dimensions
- height 2.3 cm x width 6.1 cm x depth 4.4 cm x weight 68 g
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions nudity. How works are placed
About this work
Jean Saint probably did not make the lid of this snuffbox himself but imported it from London. The lid depicts the Roman god Vertumnus, disguised as an old woman in order to seduce the nymph Pomona.
