Portrait of Marie Louis Charles Vassinhac d’Imécourt, vicomte d’Imécourt

Former TitlePortrait of Monsieur d'Imécaux

Artist Unknown

Formerly attributed to Pierre Adolphe Hall (Swedish, 1739 - 1793)

CultureFrench

Dateca. 1780

MediumWatercolor and gouache on ivory; Gilt copper bezel

DimensionsSight: 1 7/16 × 1 1/4 inches (3.65 × 3.18 cm)
Framed: 1 15/16 × 1 3/4 inches (4.92 × 4.45 cm)

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

Object numberF58-60/65

InscribedInscribed on verso: “M. d’Imécourt”

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

DescriptionPortrait miniature of a man with powdered hair wearing a green coat before a sky background.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, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 264.

Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 250, p. 81, (repro.), as by Pierre Adolphe Hall, Unknown Man.

Nathalie Lemoine-Bouchard, Les Peintres en Miniature 1650–1850 (Paris: Les éditions de l’Amateur, 2008), 278.

Blythe Sobol, “Unknown, Portrait of Marie Louis Charles Vassinhac d’Imécourt, vicomte d’Imécourt, ca. 1780,” catalogue entry 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/10.37764/8322.5.2240.

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