material used: ivory

instance of: painting (238) | sculpture (57) | statuette (25) | archaeological artifact (14) | watercolor painting (14) | statue (10) | item of collection or exhibition (7) | work of art (6) | triptych (5) | Plaquette (4) | relief sculpture (3) | diptych (3) | token coin (3) | spoon (2) | counter (2) | Venus figurine (2) | reliquary (2) | figurine (2)

commissioned by: Francis I of France (1)

owned by: Metropolitan Museum of Art (2) | King Baudouin Foundation (2) | Mary Clark Thompson (1) | Herbert Lee Pratt (1) | John LaPorte Given (1) | Ella Church Strobell (1) | Heritage Fund (1) | the Sisters of Notre Dame (1)

movement: Art of the Paleolithic (3) | medieval art (3) | Byzantine art (2) | Etruscan art (2) | Roman sculpture (2) | Gothic art (1) | mannerism (1) | Macedonian Renaissance (1) | Italian Renaissance (1) | Karolingisch (1) | Baroque sculpture (1) | New Sculpture (1) | Romanos group (1)

genre: portrait (144) | miniature (65) | self-portrait (14) | portrait painting (5) | religious sculpture (5) | nude (4) | portrait at bust length (4) | genre art (4) | religious art (4) | statuette (3) | Venus figurine (2) | profile (2) | list of colossal sculpture in situ (2) | mythological sculpture (2) | landscape art (1) | ornament (1) | erotic art (1)

named after: Geißenklösterle (1)

based on: Odyssey (1) | None (1) | Madonna and Child (1)

artist: anonymous (97) | Sarah Goodridge (6) | Joseph Boze (5) | Leonardus Temminck (5) | Pieter le Sage (5) | Joseph Marinkelle (4) | Daniël Bruyninx (4) | Jacob Christoph Le Blon (3) | Johannes Hari (3) | Johannes Emilius Phaff (3) | Gerrit Kamphuysen (3) | Lawrence Sully (3) | Phidias (2) | Balthasar Denner (2) | Henriette Wolters-van Pee (2) | Johann Dominik Bossi (2) | Philippe Wolfers (2) | Peter Edward Stroehling (2)

depicts: woman (53) | man (34) | White people (27) | Virgin Mary (9) | Jesus Christ (7) | boy (6) | child (6) | clothing (6) | nudity (5) | Child Jesus (5) | Miguel Calmon (5) | lion (4) | breast (4) | military officer (4) | girl (3) | mother (3) | buttocks (3) | Empire of Brazil (3)

collection: Rijksmuseum (117) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (51) | National Museum in Warsaw (26) | Department of Egyptian Antiquities of the Louvre (24) | Museu Histórico Nacional collection (20) | Department of Decorative Arts of the Louvre (9) | Department of Near Eastern Antiquities of the Louvre (8) | Nationalmuseum (7) | Smithsonian American Art Museum (7) | British Museum (5) | National Gallery of Art (5) | National Portrait Gallery (5) | Sculptures in the National Gallery of Art (5) | Museum of Fine Arts (4) | Oslo Museum (4) | Edward Sheppard (4) | E. Grosvenor Paine (3) | Musée Saint-Raymond (2)

location: Rijksmuseum (117) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (50) | National Historical Museum (20) | museum's storage space (20) | Smithsonian American Art Museum (7) | Nationalmuseum (6) | National Gallery of Art (5) | National Portrait Gallery (5) | Oslo City Museum (4) | Egyptian antiquities, room 634, display case 4 (4) | Museum of Fine Arts (3) | Room 636 (3) | room 633, display case 3 (3) | Room 329, display case 8 (3) | Notre-Dame de Paris (2) | British Museum (2) | San Salvatore, Brescia (2) | Guimet Museum (2)

part of: Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (1) | Magdalenian (1) | Gravettian (1) | The treasure of Oignies (1) | Bagram Hoard (1) | Discovery of the Silver Mask (1) | Philippe and Marcel Wolfers Collection (1)

country of origin: United States of America (32) | France (6) | Ancient Egypt (4) | India (2) | Afghanistan (2) | Italy (1) | United Kingdom (1) | Byzantine Empire (1) | Kashmir (1) | USA (1)

exhibition history: European Miniatures in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (7) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (5) | In Miniature (2) | Louvre-Lens (1) | Cabinet des Médailles (1) | Europeana 280 (1) | Four Centuries of Miniature Painting (1) | John Smart—Miniaturist, 1741/42–1811: Starr Collection of Consecutively Dated Miniatures and Special Loan Exhibition (1) | Images of an Era. Norway 1814 (1) | Der Kuss der Sphinx. Symbolismus in Belgien (1) | Signes des temps. Oeuvres visionnaires d avant 1914 (1) | Salon of 1812 (1) | Gracieus. Belgische Art Nouveau in de kijker (1) | 20 jaar kunstschattenjacht (1) | BRAFA 2012 (1) | None (1) | L'europe gothique XII-XIV siècles (1)

main subject: man (5) | human (4) | adult (3) | child (2) | family (2) | Madonna and Child (2) | death (1) | woman (1) | Andrew Jackson (1) | Man of Sorrows (1) | Carel Hendrik Ver Huell (1) | William IV, Prince of Orange (1) | Eugénie de Beauharnais (1) | Anthony Wayne (1) | James Smithson (1) | Coronation of the Virgin (1) | Death of the Virgin Mary (1) | William Thornton (1)

donated by: Gloria Manney (7) | heir (3) | Millie Bruhl Fredrick (2) | Martha J. Fleischman (2) | Collis Potter Huntington (1) | Charles Allen Munn (1) | American Society of Miniature Painters (1) | Vincenzo Botta (1) | Mary McMillan (1) | Mary Anna Draper (1) | Jacqueline Loewe Fowler (1) | Helen O. Brice (1) | Mrs. Thomas Hunt (1) | Mrs. Louis V. Bell (1)

location of final assembly: France (11) | Constantinople (3) | Great Britain (2) | Portugal (1) | London (1) | Brazil (1) | India (1) | Providence (1) | China (1)

published in: American Portrait Miniatures in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (18) | European Miniatures in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (4) | Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (2)

fabrication method: relief sculpture (6) | bas-relief (4) | watercolor (1) | haut-relief technique (1)

time period: New Kingdom of Egypt (4) | First Dynasty of Egypt (4) | Early Dynastic Period of Egypt (3) | Middle Kingdom of Egypt (2) | Sixth Dynasty of Egypt (2) | Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt (2) | Baroque (1) | Chalcolithic (1) | Naqada culture (1) | ancient Rome (1) | Neo-Elamite period (1)