A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A DANCER CALLED L'INDIFFERENT modelled by J.J. Kändler, the dancing gallant with arms outstretched in plumed black tricorn hat, red cape, white shirt, yellow jacket and blue breeches with yellow ribbons and red rosettes and black shoes before a tree-stump on a rectangular base (restoration to hat, plumes, cuffs and hands), circa 1738

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A DANCER CALLED L'INDIFFERENT modelled by J.J. Kändler, the dancing gallant with arms outstretched in plumed black tricorn hat, red cape, white shirt, yellow jacket and blue breeches with yellow ribbons and red rosettes and black shoes before a tree-stump on a rectangular base (restoration to hat, plumes, cuffs and hands), circa 1738
18.5cm. high

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The model is inspired by a painting by Watteau "L'Indifferent", engraved by G. Scotin and published in July 1729 by the widow of F. Chereau and by E. Surungue; a similar example in Dresden illustrated Ingelore Menzhausen, op. cit., no. 111, another Yvonne Hackenbroch, op. cit., fig. 60 and another Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, op. cit., pl. 52, no. 558

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