© Ashmolean Museum
Statuette of Blaise Pascal
Artist: Sèvres Porcelain
Location: Ashmolean Museum
Date: circa 1784
Materials: white biscuit porcelain
Dimensions: 32 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £5,000 (Total: £20,000)
Vendor: Winifred Williams
Review number: 3202 (1986)
Provenance:
Commissioned by the Cote d'Angiviller; Palace of the Tuileries; Gouverner Morris; Mrs Anthony Walton White. Christies 1985.
Description:
Statuette of Blaise Pascal (1623- 1662) after a terracotta by Augustin Pajou (1730-1809). Pascal is shown as a scientist contemplating a diagram of cycloid on his tablet, rather than as a theologian. A series of statues of Grands Hommes de France was commissioned by the Cote d'Angiviller, Directeur des Batiments du Roi, in 1776. Prior to their execution in marble, terracotta models were made and from these, versions in biscuit for sale.
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