Eye Miniature

Artist Unknown

CultureEnglish

Dateca. 1850

MediumWatercolor on ivory; Gold plate marquise-shaped case with pearl bezel

DimensionsSight: 15/16 × 1 1/2 inches (2.38 × 3.81 cm)
Framed: 1 3/16 × 1 7/8 inches (3.02 × 4.76 cm)

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

Object numberF58-60/190

InscribedNone

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

DescriptionEye miniature with a brown iris and brown hair.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 212, as Eye Miniature.

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

Antiques 80, no. 5 (November 1961): 389, (repro.), as Eye Miniature.

Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 212, p. 72 (repro.), as Eye Miniature.

Maggie Keenan, “Unknown, Eye Miniature, ca. 1850,” 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/10.37764/8322.5.4106.

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