Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of Noël-François Charles Caille des Fontaines

Date: 1795
Medium: watercolor on ivory in a later gilt metal frame
Culture: France, 18th century
Department: European Painting and Sculpture
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art

Painted during the tumultuous years of the French Revolution (1789–99), this bailiff court lawyer from the city of Caen appears sensibly modest and restrained.

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