Plate (from the "Vues Diverses" service)
The painted scene illustrates a combat near the ruined tombs of Baalbek in the mountains of Syria. The scene was adapted by Le Bel from a drawing by the peripatetic Louis-Francois Cassas (1756–1827), whose travels took him from northern Europe to Istria, Constantinople, Asia Minor, and Egypt. Cassas spent nearly a month in Baalbek in 1785, and his views were etched and engraved for his "Voyage Pittoresque de la Syrie," published in 1799. Our plate comes from a set of "vues diverses "and is one of only two in the series to depict a scene outside France. The service was begun during the Napoleonic period but was completed in 1816, when it was delivered to Louis XVIII.
Artwork Details
- Title: Plate (from the "Vues Diverses" service)
- Manufactory: Sèvres Manufactory (French, 1740–present)
- Decorator: Nicolas-Antoine Le Bel (active 1804–45)
- Artist: After a print by Claude Nicolas Malapeau (French, Paris 1755–1803 Paris) (?)
- Artist: After an original by Louis François Cassas (French, Azay-le-Ferron 1756–1827 Versailles)
- Date: 1814
- Culture: French, Sèvres
- Medium: Hard-paste porcelain
- Dimensions: Diameter: 9 5/8 in. (24.4 cm)
- Classification: Ceramics-Porcelain
- Credit Line: Purchase, Rogers Fund; Bequests of Annie C. Kane and Emma A. Sheafer, by exchange; and Gifts in memory of John Goldsmith Phillips, 1994
- Object Number: 1994.114
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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