Satyr and Bacchante Offering Grapes to a Child

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Terracotta Sculpture after Clodion (1738-1814)
Inscribed: Clodio par A Rolle
French, 19th century

A contemporary of Houdon and Fragonard, Claude Michel, known as Clodion, was one of the most creative and technically gifted French sculptors of the second half of the eighteenth century. Although he demonstrated the ability to execute monumental sculpture in marble, his genius was expressed most fully in his small terracottas. He was able to fuse the energy of the French and Roman baroque works of the seventeenth century with themes from antiquity in a style that was lighter, more delicate, and more subtly sensual than those of his contemporaries.

Lit: Anne L. Poulet, Guilhem Scherf: Clodion – Musee du Louvre, Paris, Exhibition Catalogue: March 17-June 29, 1992, p. 393, fig. 211.

Height: 20" Diameter: 13"

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