Portrait medallions

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Depicting the French King Louis XVI (1754-1793) and his wife Queen Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), these portraits are adaptations of medals by Benjamin Duvivier (1730-1819) of 1781 and may have derived from an engraving after the artist. The technical and stylistic similarities between goldsmiths’ work and that in gilt bronze are seldom as apparent as in this mount.

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