Le Sabot Casse (after François Boucher)
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Category
Ceramics
Date
c. 1780
Materials
Hard paste biscuit porcelain
Measurements
178 x 150 mm
Place of origin
Sèvres
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 730483
Summary
Figure group, hard paste biscuit porcelain, Le Sabot Casse, from the series 'Enfants Falconet, deuxième grandeur' modelled by Etienne-Maurice Falconet (Paris 1716 – Paris 1791) for the Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (established 1756), Sèvres, France, circa 1780. The subject is after the engraving, 'Paysanne assise dans un paysage et enfant dormant,' by Giles [Gilles] Demarteau (Liège 1722 - Paris 1776) after François Boucher (Paris 1703 – Paris 1770). A seated woman and child, with flowers and fruit, study a broken clog. Unmarked. For a soft paste porcelain example with finer details, but lacking the bowl of fruit, see the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2009-119-1.
Provenance
Listed in the ‘Inventory of Heirlooms at Stourhead directed to be taken by the Will of the late Sir Richard Colt Hoare Bart.’, 1838, in the China Cupboard, as one of ‘Seventeen small ornamental French China Figures’. Bequeathed by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947), 1946.
Makers and roles
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory , manufacturer Étienne-Maurice Falconet (Paris 1716 - Paris 1791), modeller Gilles Demarteau (Liège 1722 - Paris 1776), engraver (printmaker) after François Boucher (Paris 1703 – Paris 1770), artist