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Figure Group: Charity (la bienfaisance)
Louis-Simon Boizot1785
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
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.
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- Title: Figure Group: Charity (la bienfaisance)
- Creator: Sèvres Manufactory, Louis-Simon Boizot
- Date Created: 1785
- Location Created: Sèvres, France
- Physical Dimensions: 23 × 20.3 × 16.8 cm (9 1/16 × 8 × 6 5/8 in.)
- Type: Figurine
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Hard-paste biscuit porcelain
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 96.DE.343
- Culture: French
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Gift of Richard Philip Proudman
- Creator Display Name: Sèvres Manufactory (French, founded 1756) Model by Louis-Simon Boizot (French, 1743 - 1809)
- Classification: Decorative Art (Art Genre)
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