id: 142470 accession number: 1966.235 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.235 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:16.265000 Figure Group of Love Carried by the Three Graces, c. 1768–1778. Sèvres Porcelain Factory (French, est. 1756), after a design by François Boucher (French, 1703–1770). Unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit); overall: 25.4 x 12.8 x 14 cm (10 x 5 1/16 x 5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection 1966.235 title: Figure Group of Love Carried by the Three Graces title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1768–1778 creation date earliest: 1768 creation date latest: 1778 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. * 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: 25.4 x 12.8 x 14 cm (10 x 5 1/16 x 5 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: [Incised on top of base]: "B" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1982-06-20T04:00:00 The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-August 22, 1982). title: Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings opening date: 2016-07-16T04:00:00 Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 6, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE R. Henry Norweb, Cleveland, Ohio. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982. page number: Cat. No. 72, repr. p. 68 url: Bourgeois, Émile. Le biscuit de Sèvres au XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Goupil, 1909. page number: Vol. 2, p. 12, pl. 28 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. 597, pl. 8 url: Réau, Louis. Etienne-Maurice Falconet. Paris: Demotte, 1922. page number: Mentioned: P. 270, Vol. 1 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. 11, no. 90 url: Birjukova, Nina. Figurines et Groupes en Porcelaine des Manufactures Francaises du XVIIIe Siècle. Leningrad: Ermitaž, 1962. page number: Mentioned: P. 293, no. 40; Reproduced: no. 60 url: Schlumberger, Eveline. "Pourquoi certains collectionneurs reprennent goût au biscuit de Sèvres." Connaissance des Arts (April 1962). page number: p. 51, fig. 3 url: Lee, Sherman, E. "Golden Anniversary Acquisitions: September 10 through October 16." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 53, no. 7(September 1966): 181-284. page number: Mentioned: P. 277, no. 19; Reproduced: P. 227, fig.19 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152110 Berges, Ruth. "Soft-Paste Biscuit Figures from Vincennes and Sèvres." Connoisseur, vol. 166, no. 669 (November 1967). page number: p. 194 url: Dal Carlo, Elisabetta. Le porcellane dell'ambasciatore. Venezia: Arsenale, 1998. page number: p. 160-61 url: Birioukova, Nina, and Natalia Kazakevitch. Sevrskiĭ farfor XVIII veka: katalog kollektsii. Saint Petersburg: Izdateĺstvo Gosudarstvennogŏ Ėrmitazha, 2005. page number: p. 426-47, no. 1319 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.235/1966.235_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.235/1966.235_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.235/1966.235_full.tif