Paris

Jacques-Edmé Dumont

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The composition, in particular the crossed ankles, derives from ancient Lansdowne Paris type statue, known from Roman copies after mid-fourth-century Greek original, which Dumont would have seen in Rome and Naples during 1788–93. The pose of Dumont's version, however, is much more supple than that of its antique prototype. It was possibly intended as a sketch model for a silversmith.

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