Double-Barreled Percussion Shotgun
dated 1854
Medium
Steel, wood (walnut), silver
Dimensions
L. 46 3/5 in. (118.4 cm); L. of barrel 29 1/8 in. (73.9 cm)
Classification
Firearms
Culture
French, Paris
Department
Arms and Armor
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Rogers Fund, The Sulzberger Foundation Inc. Gift, Gifts of William H. Riggs, Bill and Joyce Anderson, Charles M. Schott Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, William B. Osgood Field, Christian A. Zabriskie, Dr. Albert T. Weston, Henry Victor Burgy, and Bequest of Alan Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, by exchange, and The Collection of Giovanni P. Morosini, presented by his daughter Giulia, John Stoneacre Ellis Collection, Gift of Mrs. Ellis and Augustus Van Horne Ellis, and Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, funds from various donors, by exchange, 1991
Accession Number
1991.5
Tags
About the Artist
Léopold Bernard|Louis Perrin (French|French) · 1832 |1823 –1870 |1865
French, Paris, active 1832–70|French, Paris, active 1823–65