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    "localId": "134853",
    "label": "Snuff Box (Tabatière) with Portrait of Marie Antoinette",
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    "id": "134853",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Snuff Box (Tabatière) with Portrait of Marie Antoinette",
    "description": "This box was created through the collaboration of two skilled and well-known artisans of the period, master goldsmith Pierre-François-Mathis de Beaulieu and celebrated miniature painter François Dumont. The portrait of Marie Antoinette on the box's lid is painted in Dumont’s own style while those on the sides and bottom of the box take inspiration from the work of painter François Boucher, known for his pastoral scenes in the Rococo style.",
    "date": "1768",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1957.408",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1957.408/1957.408_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Image: 3.4 x 2.9 cm (1 5/16 x 1 1/8 in.); Overall: 3.9 x 6 cm (1 9/16 x 2 3/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "France, 18th century"
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    "tec": "watercolor on ivory in a gold and enamel box",
    "tombstone": "Snuff Box (Tabatière) with Portrait of Marie Antoinette, 1768. Manufactured by Pierre-François-Mathis de Beaulieu (French), miniatures by François Dumont (French, 1751–1831). Watercolor on ivory in a gold and enamel box; image: 3.4 x 2.9 cm (1 5/16 x 1 1/8 in.); overall: 3.9 x 6 cm (1 9/16 x 2 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Edward B. Greene, 1957.408",
    "collection": "Decorative Arts",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "[Maker's mark of Pierre-François-Mathis de Beaulieu, master goldsmith in 1768, inside cover]"
        },
        {
            "inscription": "[Charge mark of Jean-Jacques Prévot, 1762-1768, inside cover]"
        },
        {
            "inscription": "[Warden's mark of Paris, 1768-1769, inside cover]"
        },
        {
            "inscription": "[Discharge mark of Julien Alaterre, Paris, 1768-1774, on neck at right]"
        },
        {
            "inscription": "[Inside box, the letter]: \"F\""
        },
        {
            "inscription": "[On bezel at left, engraved number]: \"627\""
        },
        {
            "inscription": "[On front of bezel, engraved signature]: \"Ve Georges Beaulieu à Paris\""
        },
        {
            "inscription": "[On right of miniature portrait, the letter]: \"D\""
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "Marie Antoinette, queen consort of French King Louis XVI and great patron of the decorative arts, was executed in 1793 at the end of the French Revolution.",
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1957.408",
    "creditline": "Gift of Mrs. Edward B. Greene",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:53:37.104000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1957.408/1957.408_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 134853,
    "dept": "Decorative Art and Design",
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    "med": "watercolor on ivory in a gold and enamel box",
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