Box with portrait of a woman

Box with portrait of a woman

Guillaume-Denis Delamotte

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The miniature is set in the lid of an ivory circular box with gold mounts and lining, made by Guillaume Denis Delamotte (born 1725, master 1756, working 1793) in Paris in 1775. The box bears the Paris charge and discharge marks for 1775–81. When the miniature was received in the Metropolitan, it was described as the work of an unknown British artist. In 1978 Hermione Waterfield attributed it to Hull. The method of execution is in accord with other signed miniatures by him. This one may date to about 1790.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.