“As ausências curtas animam o amor, mas as longas fazem-no morrer.”

— Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, conde de MIRABEAU, (9 de Março de 1749 — 2 de Abril de 1791), jornalista, escritor, político e orador parlamentar francês.

Retrato de Honoré de Mirabeau, de Joseph Boze (1745–1826).
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Joseph Boze, Portrait of a Man, probably ca. 1790 #josephboze #metmuseum https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435767
Attributed to Joseph Boze | Portrait of a Man | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The status of this miniature is dubious. In 1977 Richard Allen considered it to be a fake of about 1880, after Augustin Ritt (1765–1799). However, it seems to be a work of about 1790, and a label inside the box into which the miniature is set naming Boze might be a clue for a correct attribution

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