Creative Commons License
Woman with a Basket of Eggs and Young Man with a Lamb and a Fruit Basket
(18th and 19th Centuries )
These peasant figures may have been copied from Chelsea gold-anchor figures, which in turn were copied from Meissen models of the 1750's. Peasant subjects were an important element of the rococo and were inspired by the pastoral scenes of Watteau, Boucher, and other French rococo artists.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
E. F. Bonaventure, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
United Kingdom, England, Derby (Place of Origin)
Measurements
48.818: 9 13/16 in. (25 cm);
48.819: 10 1/4 in. (26.1 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1911
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
VO.28 (48.818, 48.819)