Bust of a Girl Veiled and Crowned with Flowers

Bust of a Girl Veiled and Crowned with Flowers

Pierre Julien

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

At the Salon of 1779, Julien exhibited a work based on a memory from his years of study in Rome (1768-72): "Head of a Woman...covered by a veil and crowned with flowers, like the young girls dowried by the Pope and the College of Cardinals at the Church of the Minerva in Rome."

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.