Watch

Pierre Duhamel

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

A French Huguenot refugee from Blois, Duhamel became a master watchmaker in Geneva, where he was known as a maker of movements for rock crystal and enameled cases. Pierre Huaud was born in Châtellerault, France, and emigrated to Geneva in 1630, where he became a master goldsmith and enamel painter. He was the father of Jean-Pierre and Amy, who between them signed the rest of the Swiss enamels displayed here. This watch has no balance spring, and the style of the enamel appears to be finer than the others in a series of painted enamels with so-called helmeted busts, one of which is signed by Jean-Pierre Huaud (1655–1723).

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