The Four Seasons

The Four Seasons

Antoine Watteau

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The engravings by Boucher after Watteau which inspired this screen appear in the works of Watteau, "L'Oeuvre. . . Gravé d'après ses Tableaux & Desseins origineaux. . .par les Soins de M. de Julienne", Paris, n.d. vol. 3, pl. 56-60 (for an example of which, see 28.113 in the Metropolitan Museum's Department of Prints and Drawings).

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.