# The Girl Offers Her Coin in Payment

- By: Manufacture nationale de Sèvres (French, founded 1740; Modeled by Etienne-Maurice Falconet; French, 1716-1791; After an engraving of a painting by…)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Joseph Maier and Arthur Lewis Liebman Memorial: Gift of Kenneth J. Maier, M.D.
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/135808)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/afecd1b1-56b2-3048-a943-5f17c81c6316/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
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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).

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