Lot 111
111
TWO SEVRES BISCUIT PORCELAIN FIGURE GROUPS, 'LES GOURMANDS' OR 'LES BUVEURS DE LAIT' AND 'LA MARCHANDE DE MACARONS'
TWO SEVRES BISCUIT PORCELAIN FIGURE GROUPS, 'LES GOURMANDS' OR 'LES BUVEURS DE LAIT' AND 'LA MARCHANDE DE MACARONS'

CIRCA 1759-73, THE FIRST INCISED F FOR FALCONET, THE SECOND INCISED B FOR BACHELIER, BOTH MODELS OF 1759 BY FALCONET, LA MARCHANDE DE MACARONS AFTER BOUCHER

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TWO SEVRES BISCUIT PORCELAIN FIGURE GROUPS, 'LES GOURMANDS' OR 'LES BUVEURS DE LAIT' AND 'LA MARCHANDE DE MACARONS'
CIRCA 1759-73, THE FIRST INCISED F FOR FALCONET, THE SECOND INCISED B FOR BACHELIER, BOTH MODELS OF 1759 BY FALCONET, LA MARCHANDE DE MACARONS AFTER BOUCHER
The first modeled as a young boy drinking from a bowl of milk, his companion eager for a taste, a rabbit peaking out of the box at their feet; the second as a little boy trying to steal macarons from a little girl
7 in. (17.7 cm.) high, Les Buveurs
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 24 May 2001, lot 296 (Les Buveurs).
The Doris and Leo Hodroff Collection; Christie's, New York, 20 May 2008, lot 205 (La Marchande).

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Lot Essay

The present two models are from a series of sixteen groups entitled Les Enfants Falconet, première grandeur, primarily based on images by François Boucher and conceived by Falconet starting in 1757. Les Buveurs was first modeled in 1757, La Marchande in 1759 as its pendant. See M.-N. Pinot de Villechenon, Falconet à Sèvres 1757-1766 ou l'art de plaire, Paris, 2001, pp. 115-6 and 123-4, cat. nos. 50 & 51. Also see X. Salmon, Madame de Pompadour et les arts, Paris, 2002, pp. 493-4, no. 210, for an example of Les Buveurs, included in the exhibition as Madame de Pompadour was known to own the model.

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