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Collection Online as of January 30, 2023

Cover for a Snuff Box with a Portrait of a Young Woman

1805

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Jean-Urbain Guérin

(French, 1760–1836)

France, 19th century

Watercolor on ivory mounted on a box

Box: 7.8 x 3.4 cm (3 1/16 x 1 5/16 in.); Unframed: 5.7 x 4.7 cm (2 1/4 x 1 7/8 in.)

Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.293.b

Location

not on view

Provenance
2008
Estate of Muriel Butkin
Norton Galleries (New York, New York), sold to Noah L. or Muriel Butkin before 1975.
c. 1975-1980 Noah L. Butkin (Shaker Heights, Ohio), upon his death, by inheritance to his wife, Muriel Butkin.
1980-2008 Muriel Butkin (Shaker Heights, Ohio), upon her death, held in trust by the estate.
2008-2009 Estate of Muriel Butkin
Exhibition history

Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 10, 2013-February 16, 2014).

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