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Portrait of a Woman

Artist Unknown
Formerly attributed to Jean-Alexandre Boquet (French, 1752 - 1828)
Datelate 19th-early 20th century
MediumWatercolor on ivory; Gilt metal frame
DimensionsSight: 1 7/16 × 1 3/16 inches (3.65 × 3.02 cm)
Framed: 2 7/16 × 1 11/16 inches (6.19 × 4.29 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.
Object numberF58-60/123
InscribedInscribed on lower right margin: "J. A. Boquet"
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionPortrait miniature of a woman with powdered hair wearing a white gown before a brown background.Exhibition History
The Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 246, as by J. T. Boquet, Unknown Lady.
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. 246, p. 80 (repro.), as by J. T. Boquet, Unknown Lady.
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