# The Jewellery Box [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [COOMANS, Pierre Olivier Joseph]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 82 x 67 cm ## Commentary COOMANS, Pierre Olivier Joseph \(b. 1816, Bruxelles, d. 1889, Boulogne-Billancourt\) The Jewellery Box - Oil on canvas, 82 x 67 cm Private collection Coomans worked with models both in studios and in exterior settings, capturing in exquisite fashion all the mystical beauty they had to offer. His portraits were greatly prized by European collectors. In the present portrait a young lady is selecting a necklace from her jewellery box and she is looking at a mirror to reflect her image with the jewellery, for her presentation at a social occasion. ## Related artworks - [A Young Woman of Leisure]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()