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Biscuit group by Louis Simon Boizot *, representing two women and two children, one serving chocolate while the other gives bread slices. Period early nineteenth.
Note that the chocolate maker has been glued, see photo.
Louis Simon Boizot
Son of the painter Antoine Boizot and older brother of the engraver Marie-Louise-Adélaïde Boizot, Louis-Simon Boizot was the pupil of the sculptor Michel-Ange Slodtz when he won, in 1762, the first price of Rome in sculpture on the theme from The Death of Germanicus. He then joined the Royal School of Protected Students. This success will also allow him to leave for Rome in 1765 where he will stay for five years at the Academy of France. Approved by the Academy on his return to France, he did not become an academician until 1778 with a statue of Méléagre. In 1773 he exhibited at the Salon.
He was appointed professor at the School of Fine Arts on December 21, 1805, and was replaced by Philippe-Laurent Roland in 1809 and a member of the Institute.
Apart from the imperial orders of Catherine II of Russia while he was in Rome, Boizot worked mainly for the French capital by creating mainly sculpted decorations for public buildings such as the Bourbon palace (1772), the Sainte-Geneviève church (1776-1777) or the Saint-Sulpice church (1777-1787).
In 1783, the Count of Angiviller asked him, as part of the series of portraits of the "Great Men", for a statue of Racine. Queen Marie-Antoinette ordered, among other things, two busts: one from Louis XVI, the other from her brother the Austrian Emperor Joseph II.
Boizot nevertheless acquired a certain notoriety when he succeeded, in 1774, replacing the sculptor Falconet at the head of the sculpture workshops of the Manufacture de Sèvres. Until 1785, he created small allegorical models according to the new neoclassical canons which contrasted with the elegant and graceful tradition which prevailed until then.
