Title: Snuffbox with six allegories of love
Object type: Snuffbox, painting
Date: 1775–76
Artist: Miniatures by Jacques Joseph de Gault 
Artist bio: French, 1738–after 1812
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Gold, enamel; grisaille en camaïeu on ivory
Dimensions: box: 2-15/16 x 2-1/4 in.  (7.5 x 5.7 cm); miniatures: top, oval, 1 1/8 x 1 5/8 in. (28 x 43 mm); bottom, oval, 1 1/8 x 1 5/8 in. (28 x 43 mm); front 1/2 x 1 1/8 in. (11 x 30 mm); back 1/2 x 1 1/8 in. (11 x 30 mm); left side 1/2 x 1 1/8 in. (11 x 30 mm); right side 1/2 x 1 1/8 in. (11 x 30 mm)
Classification: Metalwork-Gold and Platinum
Credit line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Infants, term: Women, term: Trees