Psyche ("La Nymphe Falconet")

Sèvres Manufactory|Etienne-Maurice Falconet

1766–73 · Figure: soft-paste biscuit porcelain; base: glazed porcelain, enameled and gilt · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Falconet showed a plaster version of the figure as a pendant to his L'Amour Menaçant (see 45.60.1a, b) of the Salon of 1761 and seems to have made the model for the porcelain in the same year.

Artist

Sèvres Manufactory|Etienne-Maurice Falconet

Date

1766–73

Medium

Figure: soft-paste biscuit porcelain; base: glazed porcelain, enameled and gilt

Culture

French, Sèvres

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Fletcher Fund, 1945