Figure Group of the Festival at the Chateau (La fête au château) or the Model Fidelity (La fidélité modèle)
Cleveland Museum of Art

Figure Group of the Festival at the Chateau (La fête au château) or the Model Fidelity (La fidélité modèle)

Sèvres Porcelain Factory (French, est. 1756) · 1766

unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit)
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

The introduction of Sèvres porcelain figures modeled after the Opéra-Comique’s theatrical productions may have resulted from the friendship between François Boucher, designer of many early Sèvres porcelain figures, and Charles-Siméon Favart, director of the theater in 1758.

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