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Source Description
The busts of the celebrated philosophers François-Marie Arouet Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, rendered in ivory, have been applied to the lid of a papier-mâché box tinted to resemble maple wood.A wooden box in the British Museum with similar portraits is said to commemorate the deaths of the two men, both of whom died in 1778.
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Document identity
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17286
label
Snuffbox with Voltaire and Rousseau
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obj
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object
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1
Source metadata
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17286
sourceUrl
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object
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normalized
title
Snuffbox with Voltaire and Rousseau
description
The busts of the celebrated philosophers François-Marie Arouet Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, rendered in ivory, have been applied to the lid of a papier-mâché box tinted to resemble maple wood.A wooden box in the British Museum with similar portraits is said to commemorate the deaths of the two men, both of whom died in 1778.
provenance
William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
early 19th century
citationUrl
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CC0
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en
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snuffboxes
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1
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1
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import
dimensions
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cm
width
1.9
height
9.6
dimensionsRaw
3/4 x 3 3/4 in. (1.9 x 9.6 cm)
Source extras
med
ivory reliefs on papier-mâché
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6229
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EAN
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none
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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cd3dc21f9ff013fc