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Double-Barrel Breech-Loading Pinfire Shotgun
Gunsmith J. C. A. Brun (French, Paris, active 1849–72)
Barrelsmith Léopold Bernard
Goldsmith Designed and steel chiseled by François-Auguste Fannière
Goldsmith Designed and steel chiseled by François-Joseph-Louis Fannière
Engraver Jean-Claude Tissot
dated 1866
- Medium
- Steel, wood (walnut), gold
- Classification
- Firearms-Guns-Wheellock
- Dimensions
- L. 43 13/16 in. (111.3 cm); L. of barrels 28 in. (71.1 cm); Cal. of barrels .70 in. (17.8 mm); Wt. 7 lb. 7.6 oz. (3390 g)
- Culture
- French, Paris
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arms and Armor
- Credit line
- Purchase, The Sulzberger Foundation Inc. Gift and Rogers Fund; Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Funds from various donors, Gift of William H. Riggs, The Collection of Giovanni P. Morosini, presented by his daughter Giulia, and Gift of…
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
