Treasuring the Gaze: Intimate Vision in Late Eighteenth-Century Eye Miniatures by Hanneke Grootenboer

Treasuring the Gaze: Intimate Vision in Late Eighteenth-Century Eye Miniatures by Hanneke Grootenboer

Author:Hanneke Grootenboer
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012-11-17T05:00:00+00:00


PLATE 1. Anonymous, eye miniature of a woman’s eye, ca. 1790. Watercolor on ivory. Christie’s Images.

PLATE 2. Anonymous, eye miniature of a man’s eye, ca. 1790. Watercolor on ivory. Christie’s Images.

PLATE 3. Anonymous, eye miniature, ca. 1800. Set in snuffbox by Jean-Louis Leferre (active 1803–22 in Paris). Watercolor on ivory, gold, tortoise shell. Metropolitan Museum, New York.

PLATE 4. Pompeo Batoni, Portrait of Sir Sampson Gideon with Unidentified Friend, 1767. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Victoria, Australia.



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