A Sevres biscuit figure of Marechal de Turenne from the Serie des Grands Hommes, on a bleu nouveau rectangular plinth

1783, INCISED L(?) R/19, GILT INTERLACED L MARK TO PLINTH

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A Sevres biscuit figure of Marechal de Turenne from the Serie des Grands Hommes, on a bleu nouveau rectangular plinth
1783, incised L(?) R/19, gilt interlaced L mark to plinth
Modelled by A. Pajou, standing beside a square column and slighty turned to his right with long curly hair, in fur-edged sash, braided frock-coat applied with buttons and loosely tied at his waist with a sash, over doublet and hose and high boots, holding a sword in his right hand, his left hand holding the edge of a tasselled cushion on which rests a plumed hat, on a rectangular base, resting on a blue-ground rectangular stepped plinth edged in gilt (sword blade a restored replacement, spurs lacking, the hat restuck and probably replacing a crown, minor chip to one corner of pocket, crack to one slashed ribbon at shoulder, very slight chip to cuff, chip to one corner of base, slight chips to top edge of base and slight rubbing to gilding)
21.5/8 in. (55 cm.) high overall

Lot Essay

Cf. mile Bourgeois, Le Biscuit de Svres (n.d.), no. 599.

In 1782 d'Angivillier ordered from Pajou, Caffiri, Gois, Bernier, Dejou, Le Comte, Houdon and Clodion, a series of figures of great men which were reductions of the examples they made in marble for the new gallery in the Louvre. The terracotta model is at the Muse de Svres.

A similar example is in the Louvre museum and another was sold in these Rooms on 4 December 1985, lot 24.

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