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Sèvres biscuit Figures of Le Batteur en Granges and La Batteuse de Beurre
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Print Details
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Dates
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Circa 1757
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Medium
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Porcelain
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Origin
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France
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Description
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Two Sèvres biscuit figures of Le Batteur en Granges and La Batteuse de Beurre (Thresher and Buttermaker) The man was originally modelled by Suzanne after François Boucher in 1755. The lady was first modelled in 1754 by Jean-Baptiste Defernex (de Fernex) after François Boucher. These two figures are very often paired together, and examples can be found in several collections and museums around the world.
Marks: both with an F scratched into the base, possibly for Falconet.
Circa 1757-66
22cm High
8.5cm Wide
8.5cm Deep
The origin of the biscuit figure of the buttermaker was as one of four stone models, this one executed by Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain for Mme de Pompadours’ dairy in the grounds of her Chateau de Crécy. In 1754, Jean-Baptiste Defernex (or de Fernex) created this model after a design by François Boucher. This Sèvres figure, along with other pastorale biscuit figures, was known under the title “Enfants du service du Roy.", Ex. catalogue on Falconet à Sévres, P. 112, le latterie de Crécy. This model differs slightly from all the others cited. The model in the more-mentioned catalogue looks down at the butter churner and has a different hair style.
Prints made in 1757 were approved by Falconet, who placed his F on the figure.
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Condition
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Small chips to her base and end of her sleeve restored
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Literature
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Bourgeois et Lechevallier-Chevignard, Sèvres Biscuit figures, pl. 3, nos. 102 and 103.
Ruth Burges, Collectors Choice, p. 247, pl. 247, 248.
Svend Eriksen, French Porcelain, C.L. David Foundation, Copenhagen, nos. 56 and 66.
Firestone Collection, Christies, 1991, lots 114 and 115.
Musée national de céramiques, Sèvres, Falconet à Sèvres, 1757–1766, ou l’art de Plaire, no. 31, p. 112.
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