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For further reading 📚
Hanneke Grootenboer, Treasuring the Gaze: Intimate Vision in Late Eighteenth-Century Eye Miniatures (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
Graham C. Boettcher (ed.), The Look of Love: Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection (Giles, 2012)
Marcia Pointon, Brilliant Effects: A Cultural History of Gem Stones and Jewellery (Yale University Press, 2010)

Image Credits 🖼
Ubaldo Gandolfi, Selene and Endymion, c. 1770 / Los Angeles County Museum of Art / Public Domain
Titian, Bacchus and Ariadne, 1520–23 / National Gallery / photo by Sailko / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 3.0
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Édouard Manet, At the Père Lathuille Restaurant, 1879 / Musée des Beaux-Arts Tournai / Photo by Sailko / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain
Franz Jakob Josef Ignatz von Predl, Portrait of an Artist Sketching a Portrait Miniature, 1799 / Metropolitan Museum of Art / Public Domain
Sir William Beechey and Workshop, George IV, When Prince of Wales, late 18th century / Metropolitan Museum of Art / Public Domain
John Condé, after Richard Cosway, Mrs. Fitzerbert, 1792 / Yale Center for British Art / Public Domain
Richard Cosway, Self-Portrait, c. 1770–75 / Metropolitan Museum of Art / Public Domain
John Raphael Smith, after Thomas Gainsborough, George IV as the Prince of Wales, after 1783 / Rijksmuseum / Public Domain
Richard Cosway, Elizabeth, Countess of Hopetown, 1789 / Yale Center for British Art / Public Domain
Villers, Portrait of a Woman, c. 1790 / Metropolitan Museum of Art / Public Domain
Charles Willson Peale, Joseph Donaldson, 1776 / Metropolitan Museum of Art / Public Domain
Nathaniel Hone RA, Portrait of a Gentleman, 1769 / Yale Center for British Art / Public Domain
Henry Edridge, John Bannister, 1794 / Yale Center for British Art / Public Domain
Gervase Spencer, Elizabeth Bradshaw, 1757 / Yale Center for British Art / Public Domain
Thomas Patch, British Gentlemen at Sir Horace Mann's Home in Florence, between 1763–1765 / Yale Center for British Art / Public Domain
Jean François Janinet, after Cornelius Höyer, Portrait of a Princess, 1787–1797 / Rijksmuseum / Public Domain

Various eye miniatures from the following museums, all in public domain:
Walters Art Museum, Nationalmuseum of Sweden, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Gallery of Denmark

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