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Anonymous, Swiss

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This panel—the work of an anonymous glass painter after an anonymous designer—is a typical example of the many windows that brought light and bright colors to the dark rooms of Swiss sixteenth-and seventeenth-century houses. As indicated by the inscription, it represents two burghers from Jestetten (a border town in present-day Germany), Christoff vom Greüt and his wife, Catrin. The figures should be considered representations of the patrons rather than actual portraits.

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