The Girl Offers Her Coin in Payment
Manufacture nationale de Sèvres
1752–1762
- Medium
- Unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit)
- Dimensions
- 13.4 × 10.2 × 7.7 cm (5 1/4 × 4 × 3 in.)
- Genre
- sculpture
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
porcelaineuropean decorative artssoft-paste porcelainceramicssculpture
About
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).
