"Battle between the Héros and the Superb"

Petitpierre et Cie

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The subject is one of the battles that took place in 1782 and 1783 in the Indian ocean between a French squadron under the bailli de Suffren in his flag-ship the Héroes and an English force under Sir Edward Hughes in the Superb, in which the French had the advantage.

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