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Snuffbox with six allegories of love

Jacques Joseph de Gault · 1738–1812

Maximum print size

33.3 × 24.9 cm · 13.1 × 9.8 in

at 300 DPI from the 3,929 × 2,947 px original. Comfortably fills a standard 8×10 inch frame.

Frame: 50.8 × 40.6 cm · 20.0 × 16.0 in
Mat opening: 33.3 × 24.9 cm · 13.1 × 9.8 in
Mat border, sides: 8.9 cm · 3.5 in
Mat border, top and bottom: 7.9 cm · 3.1 in

Colour palette

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Details

Date: 1775–76
Medium: Gold, enamel; grisaille en camaïeu on ivory
Type: Metalwork-Gold and Platinum|Miniatures
Size: 7.5 × 5.7 cm · 3.0 × 2.2 in
Origin: French, Paris
Orientation: landscape
Subjects: Infants, Trees, Women
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗

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