The Girl Offers Her Coin in Payment
Manufacture nationale de Sèvres (French, founded 1740; Modeled by Etienne-Maurice Falconet; French, 1716-1791; After an engraving of a painting by…)
c. 1757
- Medium
- Unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit)
- Classification
- Ceramics
- Dimensions
- 13.4 × 10.2 × 7.7 cm (5 1/4 × 4 × 3 in.)
- Culture
- Sèvres
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Applied Arts of Europe
- Credit line
- Joseph Maier and Arthur Lewis Liebman Memorial: Gift of Kenneth J. Maier, M.D.
- 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
This independently sculpted figure of a girl offering a coin as payment for the pastry she holds was originally paired with another biscuit figure, which depicts a boy selling pastries from a basket slung across his shoulder. Like many such sculptures from this period, these were modeled after designs by the French artist François Boucher (1703–1770).
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
