Jean Lepage | Cased Pair of Double-Barreled Turn-Off Flintlock Pistols | French, Paris

Title: Cased Pair of Double-Barreled Turn-Off Flintlock Pistols

Gunsmith: Jean Lepage (French, Paris, 1746–1834)

Engraver: Possibly Fleury Montagny (French, born St. Etienne, February 4, 1760–died 1836, Marseilles)

Date: ca. 1800

Geography: Paris

Culture: French, Paris

Medium: Steel, wood (boxwood), brass, velvet

Dimensions: L. of each pistol 8 in. (20.3 cm); L. of each barrel 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm); Cal. of each .46 in. (11.7 mm); Wt. of each pistol 1 lb. 5 oz. (600 g); bullet mould (28.196.6a); L. 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm); Wt. 4.3 oz. (121.9 g); wrench (28.196.6b); L. 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm); Wt. 2.6 oz. (73.7 g); case (28.196.6c); H. 3 7/16 in. (8.7 cm); W. 11 1/2 in. (29.2 cm); D. 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm); Wt. 2 lb. 15 oz. (1332.4 g)

Classification: Firearms-Pistols-Flintlock

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1928

Object Number: 28.196.5–.6a–c

Signature: Signed on both locks: LE PAGE A PARIS (Lepage, in Paris);

On one of the engraved plates: Gravé par Montagny (engraved by Montagny).

Ex. coll.: Bernard Franck; Frederick S. Rook; Theodore Offerman.

Paris. Musée Rétrospectif de la Classe 51: Armes de Chasse. "Musée Rétrospectif de la Classe 51: Armes de Chasse (Matériel, Procédés et Produits) à l'Exposition Universelle Internationale de 1900," April 14–November 12, 1900, pl. VII, no. 4.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Loan Exhibition of Arms and Armor," February 6–April 16, 1911, no. 209.

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Azur, J.A. Almanach des Fabricans Travaillant en Matières d'Or, Argent, et Autres Métaux. Paris: Bureau de placement des ouvriers desdits états, 1810. p. 10 (Lepage listed as "arquebusier de S.M. l'Empereur et Roi at rue de Richelieu, n. 13; Montagny is not listed in this publication).

Dean, Bashford, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Arms and Armor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, February the Sixth to April the Sixteenth. New York: Gilliss Press, 1911. no. 209, pl. XLIII.

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