Fénelon, from the "Great Men" Series

between 1783 and 1789

Francois-Joseph Le Riche, Artist Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, Manufacturer

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Fashionable Living, Level 3, South Wing

Fénelon, from the "Great Men" Series: 1 of Collection Gallery

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Title Fénelon, from the "Great Men" Series

Artwork Date between 1783 and 1789

Makers Francois-Joseph Le Riche (Artist) French Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer) French, active 1756 - present

Medium Hard-paste biscuit porcelain

Dimensions Overall: 18 5/8 × 8 1/2 × 7 1/16 inches (47.3 × 21.6 × 17.9 cm)

Classification Ceramics

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Founders Society Purchase, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Davis by exchange, and City of Detroit by exchange

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1992.279

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Signed Signed, on plinth near left foot, incised in script: LR [for Francois-Joseph Le Riche]

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Provenance

Art market (Lyon, France)

(Dragesco-Cramoisan, Paris, France)

1992-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Bougeois, Émile. Le Bisquit de Sèvres au XVIIIe Siècle. 1909, vol. 1, pp. 172-176; vol. 2, p. 24.

Bougeois, Émile and Lechevallier-Chevignard. Le Bisquit de Sèvres, Recueil des modèles de la Manufacture de Sèvres au XVIIIe Siècle. Paris, 1913, no. 301 (ill.).

Eriksen, Svend and Geoffrey Bellaigue. Sèvres Porcelain, Vincennes and Sèvres, 1740-1800. pp. 346-347, no. 152.

McClellan, Andrew. "D'Angiviller's 'Great Men' of France and the Politics of the Parlements." Art History 13, no. 2 (June 1990): pp. 175-192.

Dowley, Francis H. "D'Agiviller's Grands Hommes and the Significant Moment." Art Bulletin 39 (1957): pp. 259-277.

Nouvelles Acquisitions du Departement des Objets d'art, 1985-1989. Exh. cat., Musée du Louvre. Paris, pp. 204, 205, no. 100 (ill.).

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Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory; Francois-Joseph Le Riche, Fénelon, from the "Great Men" Series, between 1783 and 1789, hard-paste biscuit porcelain. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Davis by exchange, and City of Detroit by exchange, 1992.279.