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Portrait of a Man
(18th and 19th Centuries )
This miniature of an unidentified older man has a later gold frame. He wears a powdered wig, a light blue striped coat, and a vest edged with gold embroidery. Jean Coteau was an enameller who worked from about 1782 at the porcelain factory of Sevres where he decorated porcelain with enamels imitating precious stones over stamped paillettes of gold. His name is found on numerous clock-dials of the end of the Louis XVI period.
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Provenance
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Likely Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1901 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
France (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 2 13/16 × W: 2 7/16 in. (7.1 × 6.2 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by William T. or, more likely, Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
38.19