Louis Jean Thévenet
Jean Louis Thevenet (senior) (1705 - ca. 1778) was a French porcelain painter active from 1741 to 1777. Formerly a fanmaker, he painted flowers, both singular and in bunches. His early work included painting on porcelain in the studio of . He worked at Manufacture de Vincennes (1741) before joining Sèvres in 1756 where he was known as No. 121.[a] His mark resembles a pin, although it has also been illustrated as a comma or musical note.[1] He was known to still have painted in 1778, and to have had a daughter who also painted for Sèvres.[2]
Selected works in public collections[]
- 1764, ointment jars, Sèvres porcelain, polychrome decoration, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- 1767, bone china cup and saucer, Clark Art Institute
- 1768, cup and saucer from the Manufacture de Vincennes, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
- Sugar pot, Walters Art Museum
Notes[]
- ^ One of his sons is No. 122, the latter specializing in ornaments and friezes
References[]
- ^ Fahy, F. J. B. Watson, Carl Christian Dauterman, and Everett (1970). The Wrightsman Collection. Vols. 3 and 4, Furniture, Snuffboxes, Silver, Bookbindings, Porcelain. Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 439–. ISBN 978-0-87099-010-6.
- ^ Dauterman, Carl Christian; O'Neill, John Philip; Wasserman, Rosanne (1 January 1986). Sèvres Porcelain: Makers and Marks of the Eighteenth Century. Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 132–. ISBN 978-0-87099-227-8.
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