Workshop of Joseph Deschamps (1743-1788) Two groups of young girls carrying cornucopias Groups in patinated plaster with gold highlights H. 183 cm presented on fluted columns painted in trompe l'oeil imitating marble H. 88 cm RestorationsExhibition: Presented at the Hôtel de la Marine (Paris), from May 2021 to October 2022. Related works : -Joseph Deschamps, Two gilded and chased copper girandoles, set on two horns of plenty carried by two women, all in gilded plaster, placed at the sides of the stage, 1778, interior of the theatre room of the Petit Trianon, Versailles ; -Marie-Louis Adélaïde Boizot after Jean-François Thérèse Chalgrin, Élévation extérieure de la salle de Bal construite pour le Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, ambassadeur de Marie-Thérèse à Paris, à l'occasion du mariage du dauphin et de la dauphine en 1770, etching and burin, dim. 42 x 56,5 cm, Paris, musée Carnavalet , inv. GC Hist. IV A. Related literature : -Denise Ledoux-Lebard, Versailles, le Petit Trianon, le mobilier des Inventaires de 1807,1810 et 1839, Paris, Les éditions de l'amateur, 1989, p.127 ; -Xavier Salmon, Marie Antoinette, cat. exhibition, Paris Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, 15 March-30 June 2008, Paris, RMN, 2008, p.86. These two torch-lit doors featuring two young women carrying cornucopias were probably made by the French sculptor Joseph Deschamps, who worked on the Château de Versailles during the reign of Marie-Antoinette. Under the direction of architects Richard Mique and Jean Chalgrin, he often executed this type of decoration. Very similar examples can be found adorning the façade of the temporary ballroom of the Comte de Mercy-Argenteau in 1770 or framing the stage of the Queen's theatre at the Petit Trianon around 1778. The models were also used in a drawing by the architect Jean Chalgrin for a design for the organ case of the church of Saint-Sulpice in 1776.