Cleveland Museum of Art

Figure Group of Love Carried by the Three Graces

François Boucher

Date: c. 1768–78
Medium: unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit)
Culture: France, Sèvres
Department: Decorative Art and Design
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art

This figure group was likely modeled after the designs of François Boucher, whose designs appeared as figures or paintings on Sèvres porcelain. The scene represented is pulled from classical antiquity; the child wreathed in flowers is a physical manifestation of love and the women who hold him aloft are the three daughters of Zeus, Greek god of the sky. The design of this figure group appeared among the 38 porcelain figure groups included in a service commissioned for Catherine of Russia in 1779.

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