Children with shellfish and vegetables

Attributed to Robert Joseph Auguste French

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 552

One of a pair with 1993.334.1, Children with Dead Game. The groups are models for the covers of silver tureens made by Auguste in 1756–57, acquired in 1769 by Christian VI of Denmark and remaining today in the Danish Royal Collection. This group was intended for a round tureen, a pot à oille. Auguste, who received his mastership as a Parisian silversmith in 1757 and became one of the principal silversmiths to the French court, is seen here in the roles of sculptor as well as silversmith. These detailed, deftly modeled terracottas offer rare insights into the working process of eighteenth-century silversmiths; although drawings often survive, their preliminary sketch-models tend not to.

Children with shellfish and vegetables, Attributed to Robert Joseph Auguste (French, 1723–1805, master 1757), Terracotta, French, Paris

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Children with shellfish and vegetables, Attributed to Robert Joseph Auguste (French, 1723–1805, master 1757), Terracotta, French, Paris
Children with shellfish and vegetables, Attributed to Robert Joseph Auguste (French, 1723–1805, master 1757), Terracotta, French, Paris

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