The Rattlesnake

Frederic Remington

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

“The Rattlesnake” depicts a horse twisted in a reaction of fright to a rattlesnake as the rider grabs the horse’s mane with his left hand and holds his hat on with his right. This statuette was second only to “The Broncho Buster” (1986.81.2) in popularity, with some 100 casts produced before Remington’s original models were destroyed in 1921. The Metropolitan’s bronze is almost certainly a posthumous, unauthorized cast done by Roman Bronze Works.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.

Metropolitan Museum of Art