id:			136532
accession number:	1961.10
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1961.10
updated:		2024-03-26 01:58:49.217000

Figure Pair of the Dancer (La Danseuse) and the Bagpiper (Le Joueur de Musette), 1748–52. Vincennes Porcelain Factory (France, 1740–56), Pierre Blondeau (French), after a design by François Boucher (French, 1703–1770). Unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit porcelain); The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection 1961.10

title:				Figure Pair of the Dancer (La Danseuse) and the Bagpiper (Le Joueur de Musette)
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creation date:			1748–52
creation date earliest:		1748
creation date latest:		1752
current location:		216A French and German
creditline:			The Norweb Collection
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culture:	France, Vincennes
technique:	unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit porcelain)
department:	Decorative Art and Design
collection:	Decorative Arts
type:		Ceramic
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CREATORS

* Vincennes Porcelain Factory (France, 1740–56)  - manufacturer
The French National Manufacture of soft-paste porcelain was established at Vincennes in 1738 before it moved in 1756.
* Pierre Blondeau (French)  - modeled by

* François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)  - artist
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.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review (1961)
	opening date:   1961-11-01T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review (1961)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 1-26, 1961).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	R. Henry Norweb, Cleveland, Ohio.
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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 135
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n159

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 135
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n159

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