Invalid's cup (Biberon)
ca. 1770–80
Medium
Silver gilt
Dimensions
Overall: 3 × 7 1/8 in. (7.6 × 18.1 cm)
Classification
Metalwork-Silver
Culture
Italian, Rome
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Arturo Lopez-Willshaw, 1945
Accession Number
45.43
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Luigi Valadier · 1726–1785
**Luigi Valadier (1726–1785)** was a leading Italian goldsmith, silversmith, jeweler, and sculptor active in eighteenth-century Rome. Born in Rome on February 26, 1726, he was the son of Andrea Valadier, a French-born silversmith who had settled in the city in 1714 and established a successful workshop on via del Babuino. Luigi trained and began his career in his father’s workshop, assuming its di...