LOUIS-SIMON BOIZOT (FRENCH, 1743-1809): AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY TERRACOTTA MODEL OF VENUS AND CUPID ENTITLED 'LA CURIOSITE' depicting Venus pulling back drapery to reveal the crouching putto beneath, and a nest with two doves, Venus with flowing drapery and seated on a rocky crop, the integral base inscribed 'LA CURIOSITE' and 'Boizot', 24cm high Boizot was director of the sculpture workshop at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres from 1773-1800, producing works in terracotta that were reproduced in white un-glazed biscuit porcelain designed to look like marble. The present group was reproduced in biscuit porcelain by the Sevres factory under his direction. Boizot's hard paste porcelain group of Charity, also produced by the Sevres factory, is now in the Getty Museum.