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Snuff Box with a Portrait of a Young Woman

1805

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Jean-Urbain Guérin

(French, 1760–1836)

France, 19th century

Watercolor on ivory mounted on a box

Box: 7.8 x 3.4 cm (3 1/16 x 1 5/16 in.); Unframed: 5.7 x 4.7 cm (2 1/4 x 1 7/8 in.)

Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.293

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed, lower right: J. Guérin f

Provenance

2008

Estate of Muriel Butkin

Norton Galleries (New York, New York), sold to Noah L. or Muriel Butkin before 1975.

c. 1975-1980 Noah L. Butkin (Shaker Heights, Ohio), upon his death, by inheritance to his wife, Muriel Butkin.

1980-2008 Muriel Butkin (Shaker Heights, Ohio), upon her death, held in trust by the estate.

2008-2009 Estate of Muriel Butkin

Exhibition history

Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 10, 2013-February 16, 2014).