The author of the finely painted miniatures on the present box has obviously been influenced by Edme-Charles de Lioux de Savignac (see lot 95). His iconographical sources are taken from paintings by, or engravings after Joseph Vernet (1714-1789). That on the lid is after J.-J. Le Veau's engraving of Cuisine ambulante des matelots (Florence Ingersoll-Smouse, Joseph Vernet, Paris, 1926, no. 1301), that on the base after the marine sunset painted in 1748 formerly in the French Royal Collection and now in the Lille Museum (ibid., no. 20), that on the front probably after an engraving by J.-P. Le Base of XIe vue d'Italie (ibid., no. 803). That on the rear wall is after L.-J. Cathelin's engraving of Nuit (ibid., no. 83) from the series of overdoors in the Library at Choisy, now in the Louvre, that on the left wall is after Veuve Daullé's engraving of Maison de campagne des environs de Naples (ibid. no. 84) from the painting of 1743 now also in the Louvre.