The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Pair of Double-Barreled Flintlock Pistols

Pair of Double-Barreled Flintlock Pistols

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Pair of Double-Barreled Flintlock Pistols

François-Alexander Chasteau (French, Paris, recorded 1741–84)

Date:: 1752–53
Culture:: French, Paris
Medium:: Steel, silver, gold, walnut, whalebone
Dimensions:: Length of each, 14 3/8 in. (36.5 cm) Weight of each, 36 oz. (1030 g)
Classification:: Firearms
Credit Line:: Gift of Walter A. Eberstadt, 2002
Accession Number:: 2002.521.1a, b, .2a, b

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 375

Description

Pistols with side-by-side barrels became popular in England and France in the second half of the eighteenth century. This luxuriously decorated French pair exhibits the fashionable Rococo taste for asymmetry and whimsy in its elaborate parcel-gilt silver mounts and silver-wire inlay.
Provenance

Ex. coll.: Walter A. Eberstadt.
See also
Who
François-Alexander Chasteau (1)
What
Metal (59,364)

Silver (14,056)

Gold (12,457)

Arms (9,344)

Wood (7,651)

Iron and iron alloy (6,952)

Iron alloy (3,389)

Steel (3,119)

Firearms (1,112)

Walnut (909)

Locks (486)

Small arms (378)

Handguns (326)

Pistols (326)

Flintlocks (175)

Snaphances (175)

Baleen (63)
Where
Europe (148,586)

France (52,276)

Paris (2,025)
When
A.D. 1600-1800 (66,179)
In the Museum
Arms and Armor (13,084)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
France, 1600–1800 A.D.

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