Louis-Philippe

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Verzier, Bonnart et Cie

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Louis-Philippe (1773–1850) reigned as King of the French form 1830 until his adication in 1848. This portrait, copied from a painting exhibited by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805–.1873) in the 1839 Salon, shows the king in the uniform of a lieutenant-general, decorated with the insignia of the Légion d'Honneur and the Order of Leopold I of Belgium.


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.