Jacket

19th century

  • Titles Jacket (Descriptive)
  • Medium silk
  • Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Arthur I. Chenoweth, 1979.29a
  • Work Type jacket
  • Classification Costume

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Rectangular blue jasper plaque with white relief scene of Venus with two Cupids, in the Art Nouveau style
Small locket in the form of a female head wearing a tall white wig and a black mask that covers the upper part of the face, with rosy cheeks and red lips, in gilt metal mount, the locket opens in back to reveal a hollow compartment.
Oval medallion with profile portrait of Jean-Francois Marmontel (1723-1799), French writer and dramatist, born in the Limousin region (noe Haute Vienne). Educated at the Jesuit college at Mauriac. Marmontel became a teacher of philosophy at the Bernardine seminary at Toulouse. He attracted the notice of Voltaire, who advised him to go to Paris where he arrived in 1745. A tragedy produced in 1747 at once gave him celebrity. An introduction to Madame de Pompadour brought him the place of secretary to her brother, the Marquis de Marigny. Marmontel frequented the salon of Madame Geoffrin, and after the death of his friend, Boissy, he was given the Mercure de France. After a great deal of opposition Marmontel was elected to the Academy in 1763, and in 1783 was appointed Secretary and historiographer of France. He retired to Normandy at the outbreak of the revolution, dying there in 1799. This model comes from an unsigned engraving dated 1765
Oval medallion of black basalt with the bas relief portrait bust of Roman Emperor Nero (37-68 AD) facing right, wearing laurel leaf crown, the name NERO impressed below the truncation, self frame, pierced to hang.