Lot Essay
First modelled by Fernex after Boucher in 1754, with it's pendant, for Madame de Pompadour's dairy at the Chateau de Crécy, representing the actor Rochard de Bouillac in the fashionable play Les Amours de Bastien et Bastienne
Cf. Antoinette Faÿ-Hallé and Tamara Préaud, op. cit., fig. 513, p. 180, where it is noted that the original terracotta model is at Sèvres, and that a variant presents flowers in a basket instead of a sheep. For other examples see Carl Dauterman, The Wrightsman Collection, IV, Porcelain, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1970, p. 287; and Svend Eriksen, Le Porcellane Francesi a Palazzo Pitti, 1973, no. 29
A similar figure with its pendant from The Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection was sold in our New York Rooms, 21 March 1991, lot 112
Cf. Antoinette Faÿ-Hallé and Tamara Préaud, op. cit., fig. 513, p. 180, where it is noted that the original terracotta model is at Sèvres, and that a variant presents flowers in a basket instead of a sheep. For other examples see Carl Dauterman, The Wrightsman Collection, IV, Porcelain, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1970, p. 287; and Svend Eriksen, Le Porcellane Francesi a Palazzo Pitti, 1973, no. 29
A similar figure with its pendant from The Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection was sold in our New York Rooms, 21 March 1991, lot 112