Category:Choiseul gold box
English: Gold snuffbox, created by the French goldsmith Louis Roucel (active 1763–1787). Such boxes allowed miniatures to be replaced according to the desires of the owner. Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, commissioned Louis-Nicolas Van Blarenberghe to create eight glazed gouache miniatures (painted in 1770–1771), which were inserted into the framework of the box. Seven of the miniatures depict the interior of the Hôtel de Choiseul on the Rue de Richelieu in Paris. The miniature inserted into the rear panel depicts the Grande Galerie of the Louvre at a time when it was still had Nicolas Poussin's lost decorations of the gallery (destroyed sometime between 1770 and 1787).
- Watson, F. J. B. (1966). "Choiseul Boxes", pp. 141–158, reprint from Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes of Europe, edited by A. Kenneth Snowman. Boston Book and Art Shop. ISBN 9780571068005.
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Subcategories
This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
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- Choiseul gold box back (3 F)
- Choiseul gold box bottom (2 F)
- Choiseul gold box front (2 F)
- Choiseul gold box left (1 F)
- Choiseul gold box right (1 F)
- Choiseul gold box top (2 F)
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