Oval Miniature with Female Portrait
| Artist | Christian Friedrich Zincke (German, 1685–1767) |
|---|---|
| Title | Oval Miniature with Female Portrait |
| Date | 18th century |
| Medium | Oil, tempera, crystal, and and gold |
| Dimensions | Object: 1 1/2 × 1 1/4 in. (3.8 × 3.2 cm) Overall: 1 1/2 × 1 1/4 in. (3.8 × 3.2 cm) |
| Credit Line | Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Felix Haurowitz, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University |
| Accession Number | 73.73 |
| This artwork is currently off display. You may be able to see this artwork by filling out an art viewing room request. | |
Portrait of a woman wearing a pink dress. She has grey hair pulled back behind her shoulders. She has large eyes and a neutral expression.
Miniature portraits, first popular in the Renaissance, enjoyed a golden age in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, before the advent of photography. Intimate in scale, they were often worn as jewelry or carried in a pocket. Photography made such personal portraits inexpensive and accessible to a wise audience, driving the miniature painter into obsolescence.
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"Oval Miniature with Female Portrait | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=73.73