Box with portrait of a young girl with the initials DE

Box with portrait of a young girl with the initials DE

Pierre-Adolphe Hall

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The miniature is set in a sweetmeat box of rock crystal with two-color gold mounts. It has seven marks, including an illegible maker’s mark and the Paris mark for 1775–76. On the reverse of the miniature is a plaque with the monogram DE. Richard Allen and Edwin Boucher have attributed this miniature to Peter Adolf Hall, an attribution accepted by Bodo Hofstetter but not by Pierrette Jean-Richard.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Box with portrait of a young girl with the initials DEBox with portrait of a young girl with the initials DEBox with portrait of a young girl with the initials DEBox with portrait of a young girl with the initials DEBox with portrait of a young girl with the initials DE

The fifty thousand objects in the Museum's comprehensive and historically important collection of European sculpture and decorative arts reflect the development of a number of art forms in Western European countries from the early fifteenth through the early twentieth century. The holdings include sculpture in many sizes and media, woodwork and furniture, ceramics and glass, metalwork and jewelry, horological and mathematical instruments, and tapestries and textiles. Ceramics made in Asia for export to European markets and sculpture and decorative arts produced in Latin America during this period are also included among these works.