VINCENNES - Lot 72

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VINCENNES - Lot 72
VINCENNES Three-legged milk jug in early soft-paste porcelain, decorated in blue monochrome with colored flesh, with a seated child accompanied by two sheep in a landscape after François Boucher, in a reserve surrounded by rocaille scrolls and flowers in gold on a lapis blue ground. Marked: LL interlaced, letter-date C for 1756, mark of painter Charles-Nicolas Dodin. 18th century, 1756. H. 11 cm. PROVENANCE Artcurial sale, Paris, June 20, 2006, lot 26. Charles-Nicolas Dodin (1734-1803) is now recognized, along with Etienne Genest, as one of the finest miniature painters working at Vincennes and Sèvres in the 18th century. Hired in 1754 as a figure painter at a salary of 24 livres per month, he initially painted putti and children, copying engravings by Aveline, La Rue and Huquier after François Boucher. See Marie-Laure de Rochebrune, Splendeur de la Peinture sur Porcelaine au XVIIIe Siècle, Charles-Nicolas Dodin et la Manufacture de Vincennes-Sèvres, Paris, 2012.
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