Lot Essay
First modelled by Falconet after Hüet in 1759, the terracotta model is at the factory at Sèvres
Cf. Rosalind Savill, 'François Boucher and the Porcelain of Vincennes and Sèvres', Apollo, CXV, 1982, pp. 163 and 169, no. 12, and Émile Bourgeois, op. cit., fig. 602
A similar group from the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection was sold in our New York Rooms, 21 March 1991, lot 130
Cf. Rosalind Savill, 'François Boucher and the Porcelain of Vincennes and Sèvres', Apollo, CXV, 1982, pp. 163 and 169, no. 12, and Émile Bourgeois, op. cit., fig. 602
A similar group from the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection was sold in our New York Rooms, 21 March 1991, lot 130