Lot Essay
From 1774 to 1785, Boizot was in charge of sculpture at the manufacture Royale de Svres. The present groups are bronze versions of the models prepared for reproduction in biscuit that were exhibited in the Salon of 1786. They were insprired by the monumental marble variations of the same subjects by Marsy and Flamen (Boreas and Orithyia), and Girardon (Proserpine and Pluto) carved for Versailles. Examples are in the Wallace Collection, London, The Petit Palais, Paris and the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh (see J.G. Mann, Wallace Collection Catalogues- Sculpture, London, 1981, pp. 65-66, 74, pls. 50-51 and M. Knoedler & Co., The French Bronze 1500-1800 [exhibition catalogue], 1968, 80A-B).