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Satyress and Child
Claude Michel1803
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Born in Nancy to a family of artists, Clodion was one of the leading French sculptors of the ancien régime and Napoleonic era. He went to Paris to study sculpture in 1755 and worked in Rome from 1767 to 1771. Although inspired by the art of classical antiquity, as seen in the mythological subject of this terracotta relief, Clodion continued to model forms with a softness and delicacy reflective of his training during the Rococo period.
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- Title: Satyress and Child
- Creator: Clodion (French, 1738-1814)
- Date Created: 1803
- Physical Dimensions: Diameter: 30.7 cm (12 1/16 in.)
- Provenance: Henri B.-Lasquin (sold, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, December 4-6, 1919, lot. 240, Private collection, (sold, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, December 5, 1929, lot 25, Blumka Gallery (New York, New York), by exchange for 1915.387, 1915.72, and 1915.74 (all originally gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. King) , to the Cleveland Museum of Art.
- Type: Sculpture
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.251
- Medium: terracotta
- Inscriptions: inscribed recto lower right: CLODION; inscribed verso: A/L'ami Jean/Souvenir offert/ en mai/ 1803.
- Fun Fact: An invention of European artists of the post-Roman period, a satyress is the female equivalent of the male satyr in classical antiquity. Part human and part goat or horse, the satyress can be recognized by her animal legs and hoofs.
- Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: France, early 19th Century
- Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King
- Collection: Mod Euro - Sculpture 1800-1960
- Accession Number: 1963.251
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