Mademoiselle de Montbrizon

1795 Diam: 3 in. (7.62 cm); Framed diam: 4 in. (10.16 cm) Citation Source image

In this circular miniature, Mlle de Montbrizon looks up from her desk with a letter in her hand. Polite and expressive letter writing was a highly prized social accomplishment in 18th-century France. In Paris, the French capital, notes and letters crisscrossed the city; by the...

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Huntington Collection, New York and California; A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, 1963, by bequest [inv. no. A-273]; Walters Art Museum, 1963, by gift.
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