Cased Pair of Percussion Pistols with Accessories

Louis-Julien Gastinne-Renette

Date

dated 1856

Type

Cased pair of percussion pistols with accessories

Medium

Steel, brass, gold, wood (ebony), textile (baizé, wool), copper, leather

Department

Arms and Armor

Culture

French, Paris

Institution

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Object number

1989.318a–m

Credit

Purchase, John Stoneacre Ellis Collection, Gift of Mrs. Ellis and Augustus Van Horne Ellis, and Gift of Charles M. Schott, by exchange, 1989