id: 136533 accession number: 1961.10.1 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1961.10.1 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:49.222000 Figure of the Dancer (La Danseuse), 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); overall: 21.6 x 14 x 8 cm (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 3 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection 1961.10.1 title: Figure of the Dancer (La Danseuse) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1748–52 creation date earliest: 1748 creation date latest: 1752 current location: 216A French and German creditline: The Norweb Collection copyright: --- culture: France, Vincennes technique: unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit porcelain) department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Decorative Arts type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- 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. --- measurements: Overall: 21.6 x 14 x 8 cm (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 3 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review (1961) opening date: 1961-11-01T05:00:00 Year in Review (1961). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 1-26, 1961). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE R. Henry Norweb, Cleveland, Ohio. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Chavagnac, Xavier Roger Marie, and Gaston Antoine Grollier. Histoire des manufactures françaises de porcelaine. Paris: A. Picard et fils, 1906. page number: p. 268 url: Guérinet, Armand, ed. Les Biscuits de la manufacture nationale de Sevres, XVIIIe siecle & XIXe siecle. Paris: A. Guerinet, 1910. page number: pl. 43, 35 url: Bourgeois, Émile, and Georges Lechevallier-Chevignard. Le biscuit de Sèvres: recueil des modèles de la manufacture de Sèvres au XVIIIe siècle. Paris: P. Lafitte, 1913. page number: no. 173, pl. 4 url: Les oeuvres de la Manufacture nationale de Sèvres. Vol. 1, La Sculpture de 1738 à 1815. Sèvres: Manufacture nationale, 1932. page number: p. 3, no. 192 url: Zick, Gisela. "D'Après Boucher. Die Vallée de Montmorency und die europäische Porzellanplastik." Keramos 29 (July 1965). page number: p. 5, fig. 1a, b url: Dauterman, Carl Christian. The Wrightsman Collection. Vol 4, Porcelain. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1966. page number: p. 283, no. 115 url: Préaud, Tamara. Porcelaines de Vincennes: les origines de Sèvres. Paris: Éditions des Musées nationaux, 1977. page number: p. 159, 171 url: Brunet, Marcelle, and Tamara Préaud. Sèvres: des origines à nos jours. Fribourg: Office du livre, 1978. page number: p. 227, no. 306 url: Guillemé-Brulon, Dorothée. "Le Premier surtout de table en Biscuit de Sèvres." L'Estampille 173 (September 1984). page number: p. 42-45 url: Kingery, W. D., and Pamela B. Vandiver. "A Boucher Soft-Paste Unglazed Bisque Sculpture - La Danseuse." Ceramic Masterpieces: Art, Structure, and Technology. New York: Free Press, 1986. page number: p. 179-194 url: Préaud, Tamara, and Antoine d' Albis. La porcelaine de Vincennes. Paris: A. Biro, 1991. page number: p. 174, no. 178 url: Versailles et les tables royales en Europe: XVIIème-XIXème siècles. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1993. page number: p. 285-86 url: Salmon, Xavier. Madame de Pompadour et les arts. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2002. page number: p. 485-87 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.10.1/1961.10.1_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.10.1/1961.10.1_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.10.1/1961.10.1_full.tif