Lot Essay
First modelled by Falconet as a reduction of the marble sculpture,
now in the Louvre, exhibited at the Salon of 1757.
Cf. Svend Eriksen and Geoffrey de Bellaigue, Sèvres Porcelain (1987), fig. 127, for the example in the Copenhagen Museum of Decorative Arts. See also Emile Bourgeois, Le biscuit de Sèvres au XVIIIe siècle (1909), fig. 91.
A similar figure from the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection was
sold in our New York Rooms on 21 March 1991, lot 133 and illustrated by Ruth Berges, 'Soft Paste Biscuit Figures from Vincennes and Sèvres', Collector's Choice, (1967), pl. 263.
now in the Louvre, exhibited at the Salon of 1757.
Cf. Svend Eriksen and Geoffrey de Bellaigue, Sèvres Porcelain (1987), fig. 127, for the example in the Copenhagen Museum of Decorative Arts. See also Emile Bourgeois, Le biscuit de Sèvres au XVIIIe siècle (1909), fig. 91.
A similar figure from the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection was
sold in our New York Rooms on 21 March 1991, lot 133 and illustrated by Ruth Berges, 'Soft Paste Biscuit Figures from Vincennes and Sèvres', Collector's Choice, (1967), pl. 263.