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David Le Marchand (1674-1726) was famed for his ivory carvings, particularly his portraits. He was a native of Dieppe, France, and came from a Huguenot, or Protestant, family. With the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, and the consequent persecution of non-Catholics, he had to flee France. He was next recorded in Edinburgh in 1696, where he is documented as receiving official permission to open a shop and take on apprentices. He was in London by 1700, when he started to achieve a reputation for his portraits. Despite his wide circle of important patrons and his evident success, Le Marchand apparently died in poverty, though the exact reasons for this are unknown. He is recognised as the most distinguished ivory carver to have worked in England in the early 18th century, a period when the art enjoyed a popularity unknown since the Middle Ages.\nAlthough relatively small, this is finely carved piece, and additionally unusual, being a mythological subject, which is rare in Le Marchand's oevre. Le Marchand is not known to have used Italian renaissance sculptures as prototypes for his ivories, and this is an intriguing, and probably unique, instance of such a connection.\r\n","physicalDescription":"A semi-nude nymph seated crosslegged with a satyr on a bank, whose right hoofed leg is draped behind her; she fondles his leg and chucks him under his chin. He places his right hand on her shoulder and his left on her thigh. Monogrammed. 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