Conquest of Kingdom of Naples. 1806.

Bertrand Andrieu

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This medal was struck for the Metropolitan Museum of Art at the Paris Mint at the request of the donor, Hon. Levi P. Morton, formerly U.S. Minister to France. The reverse of this medal is taken directly from an ancient Greek coin of Naples between the years 336 and 280 B.C., but the design occurs on several coins a century earlier. The only divergence from the Greek original is in the small head beneath the bull. On one of the Greek examples it is a bee; on another Greek letters.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The fifty thousand objects in the Museum's comprehensive and historically important collection of European sculpture and decorative arts reflect the development of a number of art forms in Western European countries from the early fifteenth through the early twentieth century. The holdings include sculpture in many sizes and media, woodwork and furniture, ceramics and glass, metalwork and jewelry, horological and mathematical instruments, and tapestries and textiles. Ceramics made in Asia for export to European markets and sculpture and decorative arts produced in Latin America during this period are also included among these works.

Metropolitan Museum of Art