Figure of a River God (Fleuve)
Manufacture de porcelaine de Vincennes (French, founded 1740 (known as Sevres from 1756); Model by: Louis Antoine Fournier (possibly); French, active c. 1746-52)
1747–50
- Medium
- Soft-paste porcelain
- Classification
- Ceramics
- Dimensions
- 30.8 × 22.3 × 22.4 cm (12 1/8 × 8 3/4 × 8 13/16 in.)
- Culture
- Vincennes
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Applied Arts of Europe
- Credit line
- Harry and Maribel G. Blum Endowment Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
White porcelain figures covered with transparent glaze were the first examples of sculpture to emerge from Vincennes. Unusual for its large scale, this figure is a sculptural tour de force. The river god’s taut musculature, expressive limbs, and windblown hair are modeled with extraordinary vigor.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
