A Boy as Pierrot print

Canaletto's

Object details: Snuff Box

and cool iron

5cm x W 4cm

The Wallace Collection is perhaps the greatest single art collection ever gifted to a nation

the building that houses the Wallace Collection

A colourful and playful washbag featuring detailing from François Boucher's flirtatious Rococo painting Daphnis and Chloe

Moore saw in them a fundamental form idea – an outer shell which could protect something vulnerable inside

Wallace was an exceptionally generous and empathetic philanthropist during a period renowned for its strong philanthropic ethos

1710-1787)

Yannick Chastang

The sittter wears a rich jacket embroidered with motifs common in emblem books of the time and symbolic of the pains and pleasures of love