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Design for a Snuff Box Cover (recto); Trophy of Hunting (verso)
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnierca. 1750
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Snuff box decorated with scrolls, shell, and flower boughs. At left, small-sized and rough graphite sketch of statue; verso, vertically suspended from a bowknot and showing stag, boar, bird, spear and horn, with caption: Saverne f d'après J.B. Oudry dont l'original est à M. de S (...?).
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- Title: Design for a Snuff Box Cover (recto); Trophy of Hunting (verso)
- Creator: Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier
- Creator Lifespan: 1695/1750
- Date Created: ca. 1750
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
- Medium: Graphite, pen and black ink, black chalk on paper; verso: black chalk
- Signed: Signed in ink, upper left corner: O.R.
- Paper Support: Paper
- Markings: Scroll of a watermark
- Exhibitions: American Federation of Arts (travelling exhibition), "Decorative Design of the Rococo Period," 1953 - 1954.
- Dimensions: 12.3 x 19.1 cm (4 13/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
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