Lot Essay
See Franklin A. Barrett and Arthur L. Thorpe, Derby Porcelain, London, 1971, pp. 39-40, 183, plate 92 for a white example of the model, here attributed to Pierre Stephan, that was produced in three sizes of which the present example is the largest; also Peter Bradshaw, Derby Porcelain Figures, 1750-1848, London, 1990, pp. 269-270, No. 124 where the model is described as adapted from an engraving by Charles Philips after a Van Dyke painting of the same subject.