Jean Baptiste DEFERNEX (1729 1783) et Charles Louis SUZANNE (XVIIIe siècle)
Two statuettes in patinated and gilded bronze depicting a stonemason with his tools and a washerwoman beating her clothes, after François Boucher. Red veined marble bases.
Second half of the 18th century.
Height: 21 cm - Width: 17 cm
Depth: 12.5 cm
These are bronze prints of bisque statuettes created for the Manufacture de Sèvres in 1754 and 1755. The washerwoman, also known as the laundress, is kept in the Museum of Ceramics in Sèvres (MNC no. 788). The stonecutter is kept at the Château de Versailles (n° V 2016.18).

Comparative bibliography:
- Tamara Préaud and Guilhem Scherf, La Manufacture des Lumières, Faton, 2015, page 98.
- Émile Bourgeois and Georges Lechevallier-Chevignard, Le Biscuit de Sèvres, collection of models from the Manufacture de Sèvres in the 18th century, Paris, Lafitte et Cie, 1913, vol. I, Nos. 113 and 569.