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Currently on view at: Getty Center, Museum South Pavilion, Gallery S115
Object Details
Title:
Figure Group: Charity (la bienfaisance)
Artist/Maker:
Sèvres Manufactory (French, 1756 - present)
Model by Louis-Simon Boizot (French, 1743 - 1809)
Culture:
French
Place:
Sèvres, France (Place Created)
Date:
1785
Medium:
Hard-paste biscuit porcelain
Object Number:
96.DE.343
Dimensions:
23 × 20.3 cm (9 1/16 × 8 in.)
Credit Line:
Gift of Richard Philip Proudman
This personification of Charity appropriately distributes purses of alms to a destitute woman and her two naked children. Porcelain sculptures depicting such moralizing subjects were popular during the late 1700s, and the Sèvres porcelain manufactory sold many of them. Wealthy Europeans often used these small figural groups to adorn their dining tables.