Box with portrait of a woman 1775-81 Miniature by Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin French The miniature is set in the lid of a tortoiseshell box with gold mounts; the sides and bottom of the box are painted blue with gold stars. The box bears the Paris discharge mark for 1775-81 and the French mark for small imported work, 1838-64.The discharge mark indicates that the miniature was painted at least nine years later than the completion of the box; the second mark shows that the box had been exported from France and was reimported around the middle of the nineteenth century.A somewhat similar miniature of a woman with a tricolored belt, signed and dated 1790, is in the Musée du Louvre.. Box with portrait of a woman 193810