Figure Group of the Festival at the Chateau (La fête au château) or the Model Fidelity (La fidélité modèle)

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Figure Group of the Festival at the Chateau (La fête au château) or the Model Fidelity (La fidélité modèle)

François BoucherLinkedCulture matchlcp-8b3762df2461

Date
1766
Medium
unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit)
Culture
France, Sèvres
Department
Decorative Art and Design
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
142469

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A white porcelain sculpture depicts a seated woman holding a bouquet of flowers, with a child leaning towards her.

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Recognizable porcelain figures and figure groups modeled after contemporary theatrical works produced by the Parisian company Opéra-Comique were produced at the Vincennes factory as early as 1752. This group illustrates a scene from a play credited to Charles-Siméon Favart, Fête au Château (Festival at the Castle), when the gardener Jacquot and his love Colette reunite. The introduction of Sèvres porcelain figures modeled after the Opéra-Comique’s theatrical productions may have resulted from the friendship between François Boucher, designer of many early Sèvres porcelain figures, and Charles-Siméon Favart, director of the theater in 1758.

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Credit line
The Norweb Collection
Provenance
R. Henry Norweb, Cleveland, Ohio.

Part of a LinkedCulture topic

  • Representative object from the topic 18th Century Porcelain Figurines
    18th Century Porcelain Figurines

    These objects are decorative ceramic figures and figure groups made from soft-paste or hard-paste porcelain during the 18th century, produced by major European porcelain factories including Meissen, Sèvres, Derby, Chelse

    413 objects from 4 institutions

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