Portrait of a Woman
Artist
Unknown
Formerly attributed to
Pierre Adolphe Hall
(Swedish, 1739 - 1793)
Datelate 19th century
MediumWatercolor and gouache on ivory;
Gilt copper frame
DimensionsSight: 2 9/16 × 2 9/16 inches (6.51 × 6.51 cm)
Framed: 3 1/8 × 3 1/8 inches (7.94 × 7.94 cm)
Framed: 3 1/8 × 3 1/8 inches (7.94 × 7.94 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.
Object numberF58-60/64
InscribedInscribed on recto, lower left: "Hall"
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionPortrait miniature of a woman with powdered hair wearing a blue gown before a landscape background.Exhibition HistoryThe Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 249, as by Pierre Adolphe Hall, Unknown Lady
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, 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), 137, (repro.), as by Pierre Adolphe Hall, Portrait of a Lady.
Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 249, p. 81, (repro.), as by Pierre Adolphe Hall, Unknown Lady.
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