Miniature; French noblewoman in pink dress with large, white lace collar (Cavalier) with green bow. Single strand pearl necklace, drop earring, pearls and egret plume in brown hair. Miniature, oval in oval heavy openwork cast engraved brass frame with top ring hanger. Back of miniature covered in green/beige brocade. Attached paper label inscribed in red ink ‘Henriette de Fance.’ Probable wall hanging. 8.68 x 6.01 cm.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
France
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Materials:
Brass (alloy), Metal, and Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Miniature (size attribute)
Accession date:
1909
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)