id: 142469 accession number: 1966.234 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.234 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:16.259000 Figure Group of the Festival at the Chateau (La fête au château) or the Model Fidelity (La fidélité modèle), 1766. Sèvres Porcelain Factory (French, est. 1756), Etienne-Maurice Falconet (French, 1716–1791), after a design by François Boucher (French, 1703–1770). Unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit); overall: 21 x 16.5 x 15.9 cm (8 1/4 x 6 1/2 x 6 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection 1966.234 title: Figure Group of the Festival at the Chateau (La fête au château) or the Model Fidelity (La fidélité modèle) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1766 creation date earliest: 1766 creation date latest: 1766 current location: 216A French and German creditline: The Norweb Collection copyright: --- culture: France, Sèvres, 18th century technique: unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit) department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Decorative Arts type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Sèvres Porcelain Factory (French, est. 1756) - manufacturer French national ceramic factory. * Etienne-Maurice Falconet (French, 1716–1791) - 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 x 16.5 x 15.9 cm (8 1/4 x 6 1/2 x 6 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 'B' incised on top of base translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE R. Henry Norweb, Cleveland, Ohio. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Bourgeois, Émile. Le biscuit de Sèvres au XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Goupil, 1909. page number: Vol. 1, p. 63; vol. 2, p. 11 url: Les Biscuits de la manufacture nationale de Sevres, XVIIIe siecle & XIXe siecle. Paris: A. Guerinet, 1910. page number: pl. 60 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, 1914. page number: no. 304, pl. 11 url: Réau, Louis. Etienne-Maurice Falconet. Paris: Demotte, 1922. page number: p. 269, 514 url: Manufacture nationale de Sèvres. Les oeuvres de la Manufacture nationale de Sèvres. Vol. 1, La sculpture de 1738 à 1815. Paris: Ministère d'état chargé des affaires culturelles, 1932. page number: p. 10, no. 314 url: "Biscuits de Sèvres." Cahiers de la Céramique et des arts de feu (1967). page number: url: Berges, Ruth. "Soft-Paste Biscuit Figures from Vincennes and Sèvres." Connoisseur, vol. 166, no. 669 (November 1967). page number: p. 194-99 url: Musée national de céramique. Sèvres, Musée national de céramique: nouvelles acquisitions, 1979-1989. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1989. page number: p. 173, no. 246 url: Falconet à Sèvres, 1757-1766, ou, L'art de plaire. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2001. page number: p. 156-57 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.234/1966.234_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.234/1966.234_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.234/1966.234_full.tif