CIRCA 1800-20

Jacques-Francois-Joseph Swebach-Desfontaines (1769-1823), was a painter who worked at Sèvres and at prominent Paris porcelain factories including Dihl et Guérhard and Lefebvre. At Sèvres he was granted the unusual privilege of being allowed to sign his work 'Swebach' or 'Sw'. He specialised in military and equestrian scenes but is also known for his work on plates from the Sèvres Egyptian service following engravings of drawings of Egypt by Vivant Denon. For a pair of plates painted by Swebach with similar portraits of horses, see Anette Loesch, Die Napoleonische Schenkung 1809 Franzsisches Porzellan in Dresden, Dresden, 1992, p. 27. See also the similarly decorated plaque sold in these Rooms, 2 June 2009, lot 144.