Cupid - After Simon-louis Boizot - Sèvres Biscuit

Important Sèvres porcelain biscuit statuette depicting Cupid.
The young god of Love, son of Venus and Mars, is represented as a slender, winged adolescent wearing a headband. Bow in hand, quiver filled with arrows at his side, he prepares to fire his arrow, his ardent gaze fixed on his future victim, the promise of inevitable passion.

This model illustrates the virtuosity of Louis-Simon Boizot (1743-1809), sculptor to the king and director of the sculpture workshop at the Manufacture de Sèvres. Designed around 1772 for Madame du Barry, as a pendant to a now-lost Nymph in Flight, the marble original is kept at the Louvre Museum. Its bisque rework, whose immaculate whiteness evokes marble, was a great success at Sèvres in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

This edition, dated 1921, bears the marks of the Manufacture: the mention DN for new hard paste as well as the initials ER, identifying Émile Roucheret, a molder-repairer active between 1901 and 1941.

A work of good size and great freshness, this bisque perfectly illustrates the alliance of neoclassical elegance and the technical mastery specific to Sèvres.

Height: 54 cm.
Good general condition.