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Figure Group of Love Carried by the Three Graces
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This figure group was likely modeled after the designs of François Boucher, whose designs appeared as figures or paintings on Sèvres porcelain. The scene represented is pulled from classical antiquity; the child wreathed in flowers is a physical manifestation of love and the women who hold him aloft are the three daughters of Zeus, Greek god of the sky.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineFigure Group of Love Carried by the Three Graces, c. 1768–78. Sèvres Porcelain Factory (French, est. 1756), after a design by François Boucher (French, 1703–1770). Unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit); overall: 25.4 x 12.8 x 14 cm (10 x 5 1/16 x 5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1966.235
