"Le Port de Cherbourg"

Petitpierre et Cie

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The cones shown in the design are caissons being towed into the harbor to be sunk for the foundations of a dyke. On the largest one, with canopy, are the king and his party. The open boat at top is presumably a state barge for the use of the king. At the lower left corner is a view of town of Cherbourg.

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