Leda and the Swan

Jacques Sarazin

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This statue came from the Château de Valmer, near Tours, which was built by Tomas Bonneau, a crown official, in 1645. 1980.5, loosely patterned after a late Hellenistic group in the Capitoline Museum, Rome, also echoes the composition of Sarrazin's four reliefs of the cardinal virtues executed ca. 1643-1645 for Monument of the Heart of Louis XIII.

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