BOIZOT, Louis-Simon

From John Whitehead: This is a model by Boizot which reinterprets a 1769 sculpture perhaps after Bachelier. It was first used for the surtout de table for the wedding of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. This one is a larger, later hard-paste example of 1780-1790. According to him, the letters "LR" are for Le Riche.

Maker: Sèvres, Manufacture nationale de

La Tendresse

Tenderness (Allegorical Figure of Peace)

c. 1780

bisque porcelain

statuette

Dimensions (HxWxD): H. 14 ³⁄₄ in.

marked: LR

Acc. No.: 92.158.20

Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leo A. Hodroff

Photo credit: ph. courtesy Minneapolis Institute of Art

© Artist : public domain

Minneapolis, Minnesota, The Minneapolis Institute of Art

www.artsmia.org

Provenance

• 1992, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leo A. Hodroff

Bibliography

• Museum's website, November 2, 2015
• 1987 Ennès
  Pierre Ennès, "Le Surtout de mariage en porcelaine de Sèvres du Dauphin, 1769-1770", Revue de l'art, 1987, pp. 63-73, fig. 18