A Pair of Sèvres biscuit figures of 'La Mangeuse de Bouillie' and 'Le Trempeur de Mouillettes'

CIRCA 1758, BOTH INCISED F TO THE BASE, THE GIRL ALSO WITH INCISED STAR

细节

A Pair of Sèvres biscuit figures of 'La Mangeuse de Bouillie' and 'Le Trempeur de Mouillettes'
Circa 1758, both incised F to the base, the girl also with incised star
Modelled as a girl and boy in rustic dress seated on benches, the girl eating broth from a bowl and leaning away as the boy attempts to dip his slice of bread into it (the girl with damaged spoon, both with slight chipping)
8in. (20.2cm.) high (2)

拍品专文

First modelled by Suzanne, after Boucher, in 1755.

Cf. Émile Bourgeois, op. cit. (1909), figs. 399 and 585.

See A. Ananoff, François Boucher (1976), vol. II, p. 103, no. 414, for the derivation of the female figure; Antoinette Faÿ-Hallé and Tamara Préaud, op. cit. (1977), p. 182, for a discussion of the dating of the male figure, and fig. 498 for the female figure.
Two similar figures from the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection were sold in our New York Rooms on 21 March 1991, lot 124.