About the Artwork
Fénelon, from the "Great Men" Series
between 1783 and 1789
Francois-Joseph Le Riche (Artist) French Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer) French, active 1756 - present
Hard-paste biscuit porcelain
Overall: 18 5/8 × 8 1/2 × 7 1/16 inches (47.3 × 21.6 × 17.9 cm)
Ceramics
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Davis by exchange, and City of Detroit by exchange
1992.279
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, on plinth near left foot, incised in script: LR [for Francois-Joseph Le Riche]
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Provenance
Art market (Lyon, France)
(Dragesco-Cramoisan, Paris, France)
1992-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bougeois, Émile. Le Bisquit de Sèvres au XVIIIe Siècle. 1909, vol. 1, pp. 172-176; vol. 2, p. 24.
Bougeois, Émile and Lechevallier-Chevignard. Le Bisquit de Sèvres, Recueil des modèles de la Manufacture de Sèvres au XVIIIe Siècle. Paris, 1913, no. 301 (ill.).
Eriksen, Svend and Geoffrey Bellaigue. Sèvres Porcelain, Vincennes and Sèvres, 1740-1800. pp. 346-347, no. 152.
McClellan, Andrew. "D'Angiviller's 'Great Men' of France and the Politics of the Parlements." Art History 13, no. 2 (June 1990): pp. 175-192.
Dowley, Francis H. "D'Agiviller's Grands Hommes and the Significant Moment." Art Bulletin 39 (1957): pp. 259-277.
Nouvelles Acquisitions du Departement des Objets d'art, 1985-1989. Exh. cat., Musée du Louvre. Paris, pp. 204, 205, no. 100 (ill.).
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Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory; Francois-Joseph Le Riche, Fénelon, from the "Great Men" Series, between 1783 and 1789, hard-paste biscuit porcelain. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Davis by exchange, and City of Detroit by exchange, 1992.279.
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