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Psyche

Figure
1773-1780 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Base inscribed: 'Sans toi tout homme est seul'

Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Figure
  • Stand
Titles
  • Psyche (generic title)
  • Petit Fille cachant l'arc de l'Amour (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Apparently hard-paste porcelain on a porcelain stand painted in enamel colours
Brief description
Porcelain figure of Psyche, modelled by Étienne-Maurice Falconet, made by Sèvres porcelain factory, France, 1773-1780
Physical description
Base inscribed: 'Sans toi tout homme est seul'
Marks and inscriptions
  • Interlaced 'L's in gold on stand
  • a fleur de lys (?) in green enamel for Taillandier (?)
  • 'LG' in gold on the stand for Le Guay CHECK MARK
  • 'Bo' (incised) indicating the period (1773-1780) when Boizot was Chef de l'atelier at Sèvres
Credit line
Bequeathed by Arthur Russell Johnson
Object history
Apparently hard-paste porcelain (suggesting that it was a replacement, or that the pair was made up from stock) on a porcelain stand painted in enamel colours
Production
Modelled as the pair to L'Amour menaçant. Unlike the latter, this figure was not based on a marble sculptuer, although a plaster model of this subject was exhibited at the Salon in 1761. See Falconet a Sevres exhibition catalogue, Musee de Sevres, 2001, cat 92A, where the example exhibited is dated 1757-1766.
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.125B&C-1965

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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