Object Image

Double-Barreled Flintlock Shotgun

Unknown Artist

Pirmet was gunmaker to Jérôme Bonaparte (1784–1860), Napoleon's brother, who ruled as king of Westphalia from 1807 to 1813.

Credit: Rogers Fund, 1927

Dated 1809
Steel, wood (walnut), silver, gold
121.9cm
27.203
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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