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accession number: 1961.10.2
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Figure of the Bagpiper (Le Joueur de musette), 1748–52. Vincennes Porcelain Factory (France, 1740–56), Pierre Blondeau (French), François Boucher (French, 1703–1770). Unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit); overall: 22.9 x 13.4 x 8 cm (9 x 5 1/4 x 3 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection 1961.10.2
title: Figure of 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)
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) - designed by
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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measurements: Overall: 22.9 x 13.4 x 8 cm (9 x 5 1/4 x 3 1/8 in.)
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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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
R. Henry Norweb, Cleveland, Ohio.
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RELATED WORKS
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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
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Bourgeois, Émile. Le biscuit de Sèvres au XVIIIe siècle. Vol. 2. Paris: Goupil, 1909.
page number: p. 4, pl. 3
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Guérinet, Armand, ed. Les Biscuits de la manufacture nationale de Sevres, XVIIIe siecle & XIXe siecle. Paris: A. Guerinet, 1910.
page number: pl. 43, 35
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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. 367, pl. 1
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Les oeuvres de la Manufacture nationale de Sèvres. Vol. 1, La Sculpture de 1738 à 1815. Sèvres: Manufacture nationale, 1932.
page number: p. 8, no. 382
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Hawley, Henry. "Ceramics of the Rococo Age." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 48 (March 1961).
page number: p. 54-55, fig. 6
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Zick, Gisela. "D'Après Boucher. Die Vallée de Montmorency und die europäische Porzellanplastik." Keramos 29 (July 1965).
page number: p. 5, fig. 1a, b
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 135
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n159
Dauterman, Carl Christian. The Wrightsman Collection. Vol 4, Porcelain. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: p. 283, no. 115
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 135
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n159
Jedding, Hermann. Europäisches Porzellan. Vol. 3. München: Keysersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1971.
page number: p. 279, no. 869
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Préaud, Tamara. Porcelaines de Vincennes: les origines de Sèvres. Paris: Éditions des Musées nationaux, 1977.
page number: p. 159, 171
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Guillemé-Brulon, Dorothée. "Le Premier surtout de table en Biscuit de Sèvres." L'Estampille 173 (September 1984).
page number: p. 42-45
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Boucher, François. Francois Boucher, 1703-1770. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986.
page number: p. 353-54, no. 96
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Fay-Hallé, Antoinette. "De l'influence de l'art de Boucher sur l'oeuvre de la Manufacture de Vincennes-Sèvres." Actes du IIIe Colloque national de céramologie: Paris, 9 décembre 1989. Paris: Editions Varia, 1989.
page number: p. 18, fig. 1; p. 20
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Préaud, Tamara, and Antoine d' Albis. La porcelaine de Vincennes. Paris: A. Biro, 1991.
page number: p. 172-73, no. 175
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Versailles et les tables royales en Europe: XVIIème-XIXème siècles. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1993.
page number: p. 285-86
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