id: 96614 accession number: 1916.356 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.356 updated: 2024-03-26 01:56:17.624000 Snuff Box, 1780–1800. After François Boucher (French, 1703–1770). Gold or gilt metal mounts; cover with Vernis Martin style decoration; sides and bottom enamel over gilt engine turned design; interior lined in tortoiseshell; overall: 2.6 x 10.5 cm (1 x 4 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade 1916.356 title: Snuff Box title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1780–1800 creation date earliest: 1775 creation date latest: 1810 current location: creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century technique: gold or gilt metal mounts; cover with Vernis Martin style decoration; sides and bottom enamel over gilt engine turned design; interior lined in tortoiseshell department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Decorative Arts type: Miscellaneous find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * François Boucher (French, 1703–1770) - artist French Rococo artist who epitomizes the frivolous and elegant court life of France in the mid-18th century. During his early career he was closely associated with Watteau, many of whose paintings he engraved. Boucher was a successful and incredibly prolific artistic who had a major impact on both fine and decorative art of the 18th century. He is particularly noted for having reinvented the genre of the pastoral, creating images of shepherds and shepherdesses as sentimental lovers that was taken up in a variety of medium. Boucher's sketchy manner of painting helped to promote painterliness as an end in itself. This trend dominated French painting until the emergence of Neoclassicism, when the tides of criticism turned against Boucher and his followers. --- measurements: Overall: 2.6 x 10.5 cm (1 x 4 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Inaugural Exhibition opening date: 1916-06-06T05:00:00 Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.356/1916.356_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.356/1916.356_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.356/1916.356_full.tif