AFTER THE MODELS BY JEAN-BAPTISTE PIGALLE, FRENCH, 19TH CENTURY

An adaptation of Pigalle's original marbles of infants of 1749 and 1784 that were both transformed into bronze in 1784. A virtually identical pair can be seen in H. R. Weihrauch, Europäische Bronzestatuetten, 15.-18. Jarhundert, Berlin, 1967, p. 451. Another very similar pair was sold Christie's, London, 13 June, 2002, lot 37.