id: 125871 accession number: 1948.118 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1948.118 updated: 2022-01-04 15:36:03.622000 Plate Depicting the Soap Bubble Blower (La souffleuse de savon), c. 1760-70. Jean Daulle (French, 1703-1763), after François Boucher (French, 1703-1770). Salt-glazed, transfer-printed stoneware; diameter: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of R. Thornton Wilson in memory of his wife, Florence Ellsworth Wilson 1948.118 title: Plate Depicting the Soap Bubble Blower (La souffleuse de savon) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1760-70 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1775 current location: creditline: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson in memory of his wife, Florence Ellsworth Wilson copyright: --- culture: England, Staffordshire, 18th century technique: salt-glazed, transfer-printed stoneware department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Decorative Arts type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Jean Daulle (French, 1703-1763) - printer * François Boucher (French, 1703-1770) - painter 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. This trend dominated French painting until the emergence of Neoclassicism, when the tides of criticism turned against Boucher and his followers. --- measurements: Diameter: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE R. Thornton Wilson, New York. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This plate depicts a young lady blowing soap bubbles next to a very interested young boy. digital description: English potteries often courted aristocratic clients with cheaper wares that looked like more expensive works from the major centers of porcelain production in the eighteenth century, especially France, Germany, and China. In this case, the image printed in center of the plate depicts a young lady, enticing a boy with her skill at blowing soap bubbles through a thin pipe. The print was taken from an etching by Jean Daullé (French, 1703–1763), of the painting La souffleuse de savon (1758) by Francois Boucher (French, 1703–1770). wall description: English potteries often courted aristocratic clients with cheaper wares that looked like more expensive works from the major centers of porcelain production in the eighteenth century, especially France, Germany, and China. In this case, the image printed in center of the plate depicts a young lady, enticing a boy with her skill at blowing soap bubbles through a thin pipe. The print was taken from an etching by Jean Daullé (French, 1703–1763), of the painting, "La souffleuse de savon" (1758), by Francois Boucher (French, 1703–1770). --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.118/1948.118_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.118/1948.118_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.118/1948.118_full.tif