The Girl Offers Her Coin in Payment
c. 1757
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory French, founded 1740 Modeled by Etienne-Maurice Falconet French, 1716-1791 After an engraving of a painting by François Boucher French, 1703-1770
Sèvres
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).
Unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit)