on brass and tortosishell inlaid boulle type bases.

RELATED LITERATURE

The French Bronze 1500 to 1800, M. KNoedler & Co., New York, 1968꧙, nos. 19a and 19b.

F. Souçhal, French Sculptors, vol. II, Oxford, 1981, pp.3 and 4, no.5

Les Bronzes de la Couronne, (exh.cat.), Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1999, no. 180.

Some nice old lead and copper plugs. Both are fully chased and with remains of a lovely reddish translucent lacquer. There is an old (probably original) repair to Bacchus's right pinky finger and an old lead fill to his chalice. Some surface abrasions and scratches. Overall beautiful pieces. Bases later.
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Louis Desplaces(1682-1739) made an engraving of the bacchus which he erroneously attributed to P.(sic) Granier. Consequently, this model has been misattributed through the years based on comparisons with Pierre Granier's marble Bacchus, illustrated in Souchal (op.cit.,p.91, no.11). Louis G🌄arnier, however, was a bronze specialist employed by François Girardon to repair the bronzes at the Paris Arsenal from 1686 to 1692. He was also responsible for small bronze groups and statuettes such 🌳as his Bacchus (see Dresden, Skulpsamml.). The Bacchus also appears as a pendant to Anguier's Amphitrite in Dresden, which seems to be a common pairing.

The model for the Amphitrite  was conceived in 1652 by M🐈ichel Anguier as a part of a series of statuettes of gods and goddesses for the collector Tessier de Montarsis, jeweler to Louis XIV. In 1654, he was commissioned by Nicolas Fouquet, finance minister to the King, to carve fourteen🐻 lifesize mythological figures in limestone which included the present model.