WORKSHOP OF ÉTIENNE MAURICE FALCONET (PARIS 1716-1791), MID-18TH CENTURY
WORKSHOP OF ÉTIENNE MAURICE FALCONET (PARIS 1716-1791), MID-18TH CENTURY
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WORKSHOP OF ÉTIENNE MAURICE FALCONET (PARIS 1716-1791), MID-18TH CENTURY

VENUS AND CUPID

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WORKSHOP OF ÉTIENNE MAURICE FALCONET (PARIS 1716-1791), MID-18TH CENTURY
VENUS AND CUPID
Terracotta group
Signed to tree stump '.FALCONET. Fct./ 1759.'
15 in. (38.1 cm.) high
來源
Jacques Dormeuil (1889-1984) collection, and thence by descent to the present owner.

拍品專文

Etienne-Maurice Falconet was born into the artisan class of Paris. He studied with both Nicolas Guillaume and Lemoyne, and his reputation was sufficiently established by the 1750s that in 1757 he was asked to become director of sculpture at the Sèvres factory. It was while working there that Falconet produced a series of groups on the theme of Venus and Cupid on a scale easily translatable into porcelain. The present group is a variant of a Venus Chastising Cupid signed 'E. FALCONET 1760' previously in the possession of M.J. Vinmer of Paris. Another variant of the group is in the Wallace Collection, now attributed to Joseph Broche (c.1741-c.1801; L. Réau, Etienne-Maurice Falconet, I, Paris, 1922, pp. 236-238, pl. XV).

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