拍品专文
These festive figures are modelled after the celebrated lead versions produced in the Hyde Park workshops of John Cheere (1709-1787). He was first in parnership with his brother Sir Henry Cheere, and in the late 1730's he took over the yard of John van Nost (see The Man at Hyde Park Corner, Sculpture by John Cheere, Exhibition catalogue, Temple Newsam, Leeds, 1974).
Such pastoral figures played an important part in the 18th Century 'picturesque' arcadian landscape garden created during the reign of George II. For instance, pastoral figures, in the manner of Andries Carpentiére (d. 1737) or John van Nost (d. 1729), can be seen beside a serpentined stream at Wrest Park, in paintings executed around 1720 (illustrated in John Davis, Antique Garden Ornament, Woodbridge, 1991, p. 60).
These present figures recall the painting entitled Le Pasteur Galant, by François Boucher (1703-1770), now in the Archives Nationales, Paris
Such pastoral figures played an important part in the 18th Century 'picturesque' arcadian landscape garden created during the reign of George II. For instance, pastoral figures, in the manner of Andries Carpentiére (d. 1737) or John van Nost (d. 1729), can be seen beside a serpentined stream at Wrest Park, in paintings executed around 1720 (illustrated in John Davis, Antique Garden Ornament, Woodbridge, 1991, p. 60).
These present figures recall the painting entitled Le Pasteur Galant, by François Boucher (1703-1770), now in the Archives Nationales, Paris