Box with portrait of a young girl with the initials DE
Pierre-Adolphe Hall
1775–76 · Glass, gold; ivory laid on card · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
The miniature is set in a sweetmeat box of rock crystal with two-color gold mounts. It has seven marks, including an illegible maker’s mark and the Paris mark for 1775–76. On the reverse of the miniature is a plaque with the monogram DE. Richard Allen and Edwin Boucher have attributed this miniature to Peter Adolf Hall, an attribution accepted by Bodo Hofstetter but not by Pierrette Jean-Richard.
- Artist
- Pierre-Adolphe Hall
- Date
- 1775–76
- Medium
- Glass, gold; ivory laid on card
- Culture
- French, Paris
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
