Bust of a Faun

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Bust of a Faun

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Bust of a Faun. Attributed to Claude Michel Clodion (1738&ndash;1814)<br />
Terracotta with brown engobes on a white marble base | Ralph Gierhards Antiques & Fine
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Ref: 841

Bust of a Faun

41 cm (16¹/₈ inches)
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
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”
Description: Attributed to Claude Michel Clodion (1738–1814)
Terracotta with brown engobes on a white marble base

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