Eye Miniature

Artist Unknown

CultureEnglish

Dateearly 20th century

MediumWatercolor on ivory; Vermeil setting surrounded by foil-backed red cut stones mounted on a gold ring

DimensionsSight: 3/8 × 3/8 inches (0.95 × 0.95 cm)
Framed: 9/16 × 9/16 inches (1.43 × 1.43 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.

Object numberF58-60/198

InscribedNone

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

DescriptionEye miniature with a blue iris.Provenance

Provenance

Mr. John W. (1905–2000) and Mrs. Martha Jane (1906–2011) Starr, Kansas City, MO, by 1958;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1958.

Published References

Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 220, p. 72, (repro.), as Eye Miniature.

Elle Shushan, ed., Lover’s Eyes: Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection (London: D. Giles, 2021), 82, 84.

Maggie Keenan, “Unknown, Eye Miniature, early 20th century,” documentation in Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, Blythe Sobol, and Maggie Keenan, The Starr Collection of Portrait Miniatures, 1500–1850: The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, vol. 1, ed. Aimee Marcereau DeGalan (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2024), https://doi.org/10.37764/8322.5.4112.

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