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Miniature Portrait of César François Cassini de Thury
Jean-Marc Nattierca. 1750
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
Nattier was regarded as one of the foremost portrait painters at the court of Louis XV (reigned 1715-1774). He occasionally turned to miniature painting, as demonstrated by this likeness of Cassini de Thury (1714-1784), a distinguished astronomer and director of the Paris Observatory, shown seated at his desk taking a pinch of snuff from a gold box.
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- Title: Miniature Portrait of César François Cassini de Thury
- Creator Lifespan: 1685/1766
- Creator Nationality: French
- Date Created: ca. 1750
- Physical Dimensions: w6.9 x h8 cm
- Type: portraits;paintings
- Rights: Acquired by William T. Walters, ca. 1893, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
- External Link: The Walters Art Museum
- Medium: watercolor on ivory
- Provenance: Marqui de Biron; William T. Walters, Baltimore, ca. 1893, by purchase [no. 511 in Walters Catalogue of 1899]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
- Place of Origin: France
- Inscriptions: [Signature] At left: J.M. Nattier
- ExhibitionHistory: Age of Elegance: The Rococo and its Effects. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. 1959; Maryland Heritage: European Art at the Time of the Revolution. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1976
- Artist: Jean-Marc Nattier
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