Lot Essay
First modelled by Blondeau, after Boucher, in 1752
Cf. Antoinette Faÿ-Hallé and Tamara Préaud, Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres, Exhibition Catalogue, Grand Palais, Paris 14 October 1977 - 16 January 1978, figs. 491 and 512, for a discussion of these figures, and for the derivation of the male figure from a drawing by Boucher still at Sèvres. See also Émile Bourgeois and Georges Lechevallier-Chevignard, Le Biscuit de Sèvres, I, Recueil des Modèles de la Manufacture de Sèvres au XVIIIe siècle, figs. 494 and 362
A similar pair of figures from the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection was sold in our New York Rooms, 21 March 1991, lot 108
Cf. Antoinette Faÿ-Hallé and Tamara Préaud, Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres, Exhibition Catalogue, Grand Palais, Paris 14 October 1977 - 16 January 1978, figs. 491 and 512, for a discussion of these figures, and for the derivation of the male figure from a drawing by Boucher still at Sèvres. See also Émile Bourgeois and Georges Lechevallier-Chevignard, Le Biscuit de Sèvres, I, Recueil des Modèles de la Manufacture de Sèvres au XVIIIe siècle, figs. 494 and 362
A similar pair of figures from the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection was sold in our New York Rooms, 21 March 1991, lot 108