Man with a Mixing Bowl

Man with a Mixing Bowl

Joseph Willems

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This man with a mixing bowl may have been an assistant in one of the Flemish studios where Joseph Willems was employed. Modeled from life, the large-scale terracotta renders its subject in vivid detail. It is a key piece of evidence for Willems before his work for Chelsea (he evidently brought it with him from Brussels; his work apart from Chelsea models is virtually unknown.)

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.