{"data": {"id": 142470, "accession_number": "1966.235", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Figure Group of Love Carried by the Three Graces, c. 1768\u201378. S\u00e8vres Porcelain Factory (French, est. 1756), after a design by Fran\u00e7ois Boucher (French, 1703\u20131770). Unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit); overall: 25.4 x 12.8 x 14 cm (10 x 5 1/16 x 5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1966.235", "current_location": "216A French and German", "title": "Figure Group of Love Carried by the Three Graces", "creation_date": "c. 1768\u201378", "creation_date_earliest": 1768, "creation_date_latest": 1778, "artists_tags": ["gender unknown", "male"], "culture": ["France, S\u00e8vres"], "technique": "unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit)", "support_materials": [], "department": "Decorative Art and Design", "collection": "Decorative Arts", "type": "Ceramic", "measurements": "Overall: 25.4 x 12.8 x 14 cm (10 x 5 1/16 x 5 1/2 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.254, "height_inch": 10, "height_inch_fraction": 0.0, "width": 0.128, "width_inch": 5, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0625, "depth": 0.14, "depth_inch": 5, "depth_inch_fraction": 0.5}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [{"inscription": "[Incised on top of base]: \"B\"", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null}], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 300917, "title": "Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions", "description": "<i>Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-October 16, 1966).", "opening_date": "1966-09-10T04:00:00"}, {"id": 309564, "title": "The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art", "description": "<i>The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-August 22, 1982).", "opening_date": "1982-06-20T04:00:00"}, {"id": 282301, "title": "Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings", "description": "<i>Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 6, 2016).", "opening_date": "2016-07-16T04:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "R. Henry Norweb, Cleveland, Ohio.", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": null, "sortorder": null}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "The design of this figure group appeared among the 38 porcelain figure groups included in a service commissioned for Catherine of Russia in 1779.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "This figure group was likely modeled after the designs of Fran\u00e7ois Boucher, whose designs appeared as figures or paintings on S\u00e8vres 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.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60780851"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1966.235-figure-group-of-love"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. <em>The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.", "page_number": "Cat. No. 72, repr. p. 68", "url": null}, {"citation": "Bourgeois, E\u0301mile. <em>Le biscuit de Se\u0300vres au XVIIIe sie\u0300cle</em>. Paris: Goupil, 1909.", "page_number": "Vol. 2, p. 12, pl. 28", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Bourgeois, E\u0301mile, and Georges Lechevallier-Chevignard. <em>Le biscuit de Se\u0300vres: recueil des mode\u0300les de la manufacture de Se\u0300vres au XVIIIe sie\u0300cle</em>. Paris: P. Lafitte, 1914.", "page_number": "no. 597, pl. 8", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Re\u0301au, Louis. <em>Etienne-Maurice Falconet</em>. Paris: Demotte, 1922.", "page_number": "Mentioned: P. 270, Vol. 1", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Manufacture nationale de Se\u0300vres. <em>Les oeuvres de la Manufacture nationale de Se\u0300vres</em>. Vol. 1, <em>La Sculpture de 1738 </em>\u00e0<em> 1815</em>. Paris: Ministe\u0300re d'e\u0301tat charge\u0301 des affaires culturelles, 1932.", "page_number": "p. 11, no. 90", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Birjukova, Nina. <em>Figurines et Groupes en Porcelaine des Manufactures Francaises du XVIIIe Sie\u0300cle</em>. Leningrad: Ermitaz\u030c, 1962.", "page_number": "Mentioned: P. 293, no. 40; Reproduced: no. 60", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Schlumberger, Eveline. \"Pourquoi certains collectionneurs reprennent gou\u0302t au biscuit de S\u00e8vres.\" <em>Connaissance des Arts</em> (April 1962).", "page_number": "p. 51, fig. 3", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Lee, Sherman, E. \"Golden Anniversary Acquisitions: September 10 through October 16.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>53, no. 7(September 1966): 181-284.", "page_number": "Mentioned: P. 277, no. 19; Reproduced: P. 227, fig.19", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152110"}, {"citation": "Berges, Ruth. \"Soft-Paste Biscuit Figures from Vincennes and Se\u0300vres.\" <em>Connoisseur</em>, vol. 166, no. 669 (November 1967).", "page_number": "p. 194", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Dal Carlo, Elisabetta. <em>Le porcellane dell'ambasciatore</em>. Venezia: Arsenale, 1998.", "page_number": "p. 160-61", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Birioukova, Nina, and Natalia Kazakevitch. <em>Sevrskii\u0306 farfor XVIII veka: katalog kollektsii.</em> Saint Petersburg: Izdatel\u0301stvo Gosudarstvennogo\u0306 E\u0307rmitazha, 2005.", "page_number": "p. 426-47, no. 1319", "url": ""}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.235", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.235/1966.235_web.jpg", "width": "684", "height": "893", "filesize": "254302", "filename": "1966.235_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.235/1966.235_print.jpg", "width": "2606", "height": "3400", "filesize": "3563040", "filename": "1966.235_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.235/1966.235_full.tif", "width": "3747", "height": "4888", "filesize": "54977664", "filename": "1966.235_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [{"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.235/1966.235_alt0_web.jpg", "width": "676", "height": "893", "filesize": "255448"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.235/1966.235_alt0_print.jpg", "width": "2573", "height": "3400", "filesize": "3533202"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.235/1966.235_alt0_full.tif", "width": "3672", "height": "4852", "filesize": "53481516"}, "date_created": "2007-08-10T20:13:02", "annotation": ""}], "creditline": "The Norweb Collection", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 142470, "creators": [{"id": 11883, "description": "S\u00e8vres Porcelain Factory (French, est. 1756)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "manufacturer", "biography": "French national ceramic factory.", "name_in_original_language": null, "use_in_caption": true, "include_extent": false, "weight": 1}, {"id": 1888, "description": "Fran\u00e7ois Boucher (French, 1703\u20131770)", "extent": null, "qualifier": "after a design by", "role": "artist", "biography": "French Rococo artist who epitomizes the frivolous and elegant court life of France in the mid-18th century. During his early career he was closely associated with Watteau, many of whose paintings he engraved. Boucher was a successful and incredibly prolific artistic who had a major impact on both fine and decorative art of the 18th century. He is particularly noted for having reinvented the genre of the pastoral, creating images of shepherds and shepherdesses as sentimental lovers that was taken up in a variety of medium. Boucher's sketchy manner of painting helped to promote painterliness as an end in itself. 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