Pierre Etienne Falconet

Pierre Etienne Falconet is represented here by a compact set of etchings and engravings made after designs by François Boucher, reproducing figures modelled on porcelain from the Manufacture Royale de France. The six sheets translate Boucher's rococo inventions into print, showing children at rural tasks and play — a boy with a scythe, a girl with a vessel, a child with a dog and basket of grapes — and they belong to the "Premier Livre de Figures" devised in 1757. All six works in the collection combine etching with engraving and date, as catalogued by the Met, to 1757, though individual impressions may have been pulled later.

6 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)

Little boy with a scythe, from "Premier Livre de Figures d'après les porcelaines de la Manufacture Royale de France, inventées en 1757, par Mr. Boucher"

1757 · Etching and engraving

Little girl doing farm work, from "Premier Livre de Figures d'après les porcelaines de la Manufacture Royale de France, inventées en 1757, par Mr. Boucher"

1757 · Etching and engraving

Frontispiece with little boy holding a basket, from "Premier Livre de Figures d'après les porcelaines de la Manufacture Royale de France, inventées en 1757, par Mr. Boucher"

1757 · Etching and engraving

Little girl with a vessel by her feet, from "Premier Livre de Figures d'après les porcelaines de la Manufacture Royale de France, inventées en 1757, par Mr. Boucher"

1757 · Etching and engraving

Little boy holding a vessel, from "Premier Livre de Figures d'après les porcelaines de la Manufacture Royale de France, inventées en 1757, par Mr. Boucher"

1757 · Etching and engraving

Child with a Dog, Holding a Basket of Grapes, from "Premier Livre de Figures d'après les porcelaines de la Manufacture Royale de France, inventées en 1757, par Mr. Boucher"

1757 · Etching and engraving