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Jean Cavalier

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The attribution to Jean Cavalier was made by comparison with various of his ivory portrait roundels, a genre in which he specialized. Particularly telling are the light handling of hair and the scalloped edges of cloth. Cavalier worked in England for about a decade around 1680 and afterward in other European courts.

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