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Portrait of a Nobleman
(18th and 19th Centuries )
A gentleman is painted in watercolor. On the reverse of the miniature, rendered in hair are the letters MCO in script, a wreath, a pair of flanking doves and two burning hearts pierced by an arrow, all enclosed within a laurel leaf border.
The miniature is mounted in an oval gold frame surrounded both on the obverse and reverse by a row of sixty-two diamonds in silver collets and an outer band of forty-nine half-pearls in gold collets. A loop for the suspension of the miniature is faced with three half-pearls.
Provenance
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Acquired by Abraham Jay Fink; by bequest to A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, 1963; given to Walters Art Museum, 1963.
Exhibitions
| 1979-1980 | Jewelry - Ancient to Modern. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
| 1958-1959 | Four Centuries of Miniature Painting from the Collections of the A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc. and A.J. Fink, Personally. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. |
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 1/15/1964 | Treatment | cleaned |
| 5/11/1964 | Treatment | other |
Geographies
Sweden (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H of case: 2 7/16 in. (6.19 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., in memory of Abraham Jay Fink, 1963
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.
38.316