Portrait of Marie Gabrielle Capet
Artist
Unknown
Formerly attributed to
Frédéric Dubois
(French, active ca. 1780 - 1819)
Datelate 19th-early 20th century
MediumWatercolor and gouache on ivory;
Brass case
DimensionsSight: 2 1/16 × 1 11/16 inches (5.24 × 4.29 cm)
Framed: 2 3/8 × 2 inches (6.03 × 5.08 cm)
Framed: 2 3/8 × 2 inches (6.03 × 5.08 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.
Object numberF58-60/32
InscribedInscribed on recto, left margin: "F Dubois [?]"
Inscribed on verso: "Mlle Marie / Gabrielle Capet / Artiste peintre"
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionPortrait miniature of a woman with powdered hair wearing a gold gown before a dark background.Exhibition HistoryThe Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 241, as Marie Gabrielle Capet.
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.
Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 241, p. 79, (repro.), as Marie Gabrielle Capet.
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Moritz Michael Daffinger
late 19th-early 20th century
F71-29/5,6
