Lot Essay
First modelled by Fernex, after Boucher, in 1754-5.
Cf. Émile Bourgeois, Le Biscuit de Sèvres au XVIIIème siècle (1909), vol. II, figs. 326 and 327; and Antoinette Faÿ-Hallé and Tamara Préaud, Porcelaines de Vincennes, les origines de Sèvres, Exhibition Catalogue, Grand Palais, Paris 14 October 1977-16 January 1978, fig. 485, for notes on the terracotta originals and moulds in the Musée de Sèvres.
A pair of similar figures were sold in these Rooms, 4 July 1977, lot 16. Another pair sold by Christie's New York on 9 June 1979, lot 188 and a further pair, from the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection, were sold by Christie's New York on 21 March 1991, lot 121.
Cf. Émile Bourgeois, Le Biscuit de Sèvres au XVIIIème siècle (1909), vol. II, figs. 326 and 327; and Antoinette Faÿ-Hallé and Tamara Préaud, Porcelaines de Vincennes, les origines de Sèvres, Exhibition Catalogue, Grand Palais, Paris 14 October 1977-16 January 1978, fig. 485, for notes on the terracotta originals and moulds in the Musée de Sèvres.
A pair of similar figures were sold in these Rooms, 4 July 1977, lot 16. Another pair sold by Christie's New York on 9 June 1979, lot 188 and a further pair, from the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection, were sold by Christie's New York on 21 March 1991, lot 121.