
Marie-Amélie, Queen of the French
Baron François Joseph Bosio
An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art
The subject was the wife of King Louis-Philippe. A marble of 1839 is at Versailles. This example was sent in 1841 to Duke Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg-Gotha, into whose family two of the queen's children were married.
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.