Figure Pair of the Dancer (La Danseuse) and the Bagpiper (Le Joueur de Musette)

In the mid-18th century, the designs of reputed painter François Boucher were regularly reproduced at the Vincennes factory as figures or paintings on porcelain. A series of eight children designed by Boucher were referred to in factory records as the <em>Enfants de Boucher </em>(children of Boucher) and regularly reproduced. The depictions of these barefoot children in peasant attire engaged in pastoral pursuits represent the virtuous simplicity the 18th-century French elite ascribed to representations of rural life.