CIRCA 1780-90, AFTER THE MODELS BY CHARLES GABRIEL SAUVAGE, CALLED LEMIRE

Charles Gabriel Sauvage called Lemire, French (1741-1827).
In a portrait on porcelain of Christophe Dihl by Étienne Charles Le Guay, dated 1797 and now at Sèvres-Cité de la céramique (inv. no. 2931), Dihl himself is depicted seated among the necessary materials to produce fine porcelain. At the top left of the portrait is a selection of three choice objects from the manufactory, including a model of L'Enfant lisant. See R. de Plinval de Guillebon, Les Biscuits de porcelaine de Paris, Dijon, 2012, p. 49, fig. 31 for an illustration of the portrait, as well as p. 59, fig. 42 for another pair of the models at Sèvres-Cité de la céramique. Also compare the pair of figures formerly in the The Forsyth Wickes Collection, and now in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (accession nos. 65.2097 and 65.2098).