Psyche ("La Nymphe Falconet")
Unknown Artist
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.
Credit: Fletcher Fund, 1945
1766-73
Figure: soft-paste biscuit porcelain; base: glazed porcelain, enameled and gilt
12.0in
45.60.2a, b
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