A Capodimonte (Carlo III) group of a lady and her artist companion

CIRCA 1755, BLUE FLEUR-DE-LYS MARK

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A Capodimonte (Carlo III) group of a lady and her artist companion
Circa 1755, blue fleur-de-lys mark
Modelled by Giuseppe Gricci, she standing in a white lace cap with gilt-edged white ruff, blue-patterned dress, yellow underskirt and red and gilt shoes, holding a gilt-edged fan, her companion seated on a waisted stool to her left in a long sleeved puce-patterned jacket, black breeches and gilt-buckled shoes, holding a gilt-edged square canvas on his knees, on a plain rectangular base (small area of restoration to back of his head, minute chip to her fan, small repair to back right hand corner of base and minute chip to bottom edge of base at back and to front and back left hand corner, two small chips to left sleeve of his jacket)
5¾ in. (14.5 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Only two other examples of this model would appear to be recorded at Capodimonte; one was sold in these Rooms on 7 October 1996, lot 257, and for the other see Angela Caròla-Perrotti, Le Porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli (1986), pp. 180-181, no. 119 where she persuasively suggests that the two component figures are derived from Pietro Longhi's, Il concertino di famiglia and Lezione di geografia, for the lady looks more as though she is singing than posing and the artist is in a didactic attitude.

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