Ref: 841
Bust of a Faun
Claude Michel Clodion
Ref: 841
Bust of a Faun
Claude Michel Clodion
41 cm (16¹/₈ inches)
Signed on the back: Clodion 1803
Signed on the back: Clodion 1803
Provenance: Paris Art Market, private collection Rhineland-Palatinate
Literature: Thieme-Becker, Volume VII, Leipzig, pp. 110-111, E. Benezit, Volume II, p. 546
James David Draper/ Guilhem Scherf, Playing with Fire European Terracotta Models 1740 – 1840, New York, 2003, p. 97
Fig., pp. 224 – 225 Fig., p. 255
James David Draper/ Guilhem Scherf, Playing with Fire European Terracotta Models 1740 – 1840, New York, 2003, p. 97
Fig., pp. 224 – 225 Fig., p. 255
Exhibition: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston “Two Dancing Bacchantes and a Putti”, Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Nymph and Satyr
carousing”, NYC, Musée du Louvre, Paris “Satyr and Bacchante”
carousing”, NYC, Musée du Louvre, Paris “Satyr and Bacchante”
Description: Attributed to Claude Michel Clodion (1738–1814)
Terracotta with brown engobes on a white marble base
Terracotta with brown engobes on a white marble base
Bust of a Faun