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DiaporamaBox with portrait of a young girl with the initials DE
1775
6.0 x 5.0 cm
pa hall or peter adolphe hall (1739 – 1793)
Peter Adolf Hall (PA Hall) was a Swedish-French miniature painter renowned for his innovative impasto technique & lifelike portraits of French nobility. Explore the life and work of this 18th-century artist, court painter to Louis XVI, and revolution
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.
About this artwork
- Title: Box with portrait of a young girl with the initials DE
- Artist: pa hall or peter adolphe hall
- Year: 1775
- Original dimensions: 6.0 x 5.0 cm
- Format: Square
- Copyright status: Public domain
- Color hue: Green to Violet Spectrum
- Color intensity: Monochromatic
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