Model of a Coach
19th century
Medium
Hand painted gilt-wood, velvet, glass, and tin
Dimensions
10 1/4 × 14 3/4 × 6 11/16 in. (26 × 37.5 × 17 cm)
Classification
Ornament & Architecture|Miscellaneous-Wood
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of William Brewster, 1940
Accession Number
40.132.1
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Italian School · 1800–1899
The Italian School of the nineteenth century encompasses the diverse artistic output of painters, sculptors, and architects working across the Italian peninsula from 1800 to 1899, a period marked by profound political change including foreign occupations, the Risorgimento movement, and national unification in 1861. This era saw Italian art transition from Enlightenment ideals through Neoclassicism...