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Source Description
The multitalented Vestier worked in a variety of media, including enamel, pastel, and oil. He was accepted into the Academy as a portrait painter in 1786, but he was best known as for his fine work as a miniaturist. The sitter is his eldest daughter, Marie-Nicole (1767-1846), who married the wealthy miniaturist François Dumont four years after this portrait miniature was made. She herself was a miniaturist and may have worked alongside her husband on some of the miniatures that are signed simply "Dumont." Plain metal back with loop for hanging.
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Document identity
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13684
label
Mademoiselle Marie-Nicole Vestier at Her Easel
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object
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Source metadata
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13684
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object
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normalized
title
Mademoiselle Marie-Nicole Vestier at Her Easel
description
The multitalented Vestier worked in a variety of media, including enamel, pastel, and oil. He was accepted into the Academy as a portrait painter in 1786, but he was best known as for his fine work as a miniaturist. The sitter is his eldest daughter, Marie-Nicole (1767-1846), who married the wealthy miniaturist François Dumont four years after this portrait miniature was made. She herself was a miniaturist and may have worked alongside her husband on some of the miniatures that are signed simply "Dumont." Plain metal back with loop for hanging.
provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1785
citationUrl
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CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Miniatures
miniatures (paintings)
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1
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
H: 3 5/16 in. (8.4 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Signature and date] Upper right: Vestier 1785
med
watercolor on ivory; copper frame set with pearls
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3400
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EAN
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none
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1
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0
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photo
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1e19560724c8b79f