Children playing with fruit

Children playing with fruit

Francesco Ladatte

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This work and Children Playing with Birds (1970.8.1) were two of four groups representing the Elements or the Seasons. They were commissioned by King Carlo Emanuele III of Savoy and were arranged around a fountain in the gardens of the royal palace in Turin, from which they were removed in the nineteenth century.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Children playing with fruitChildren playing with fruitChildren playing with fruitChildren playing with fruitChildren playing with fruit

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.