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Source Description
Clodion, whose career spanned the last decades of the ancien régime through the French Revolution and Napoleon's reign, embraced his era's taste for antiquity. He trained in Paris and also worked in Rome. He was awarded many prizes and frequently exhibited at the Salon. Although Clodion received a number of important commissions for monumental marble sculptures, his fame and popularity rested on his skill at modeling small-scale terracotta groups for private collectors, such as this one. Bacchic subjects were Clodion's specialty.
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Document identity
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36799
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Female Satyr with Putti
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sculpture
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36799
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sculpture
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title
Female Satyr with Putti
description
Clodion, whose career spanned the last decades of the ancien régime through the French Revolution and Napoleon's reign, embraced his era's taste for antiquity. He trained in Paris and also worked in Rome. He was awarded many prizes and frequently exhibited at the Salon. Although Clodion received a number of important commissions for monumental marble sculptures, his fame and popularity rested on his skill at modeling small-scale terracotta groups for private collectors, such as this one. Bacchic subjects were Clodion's specialty.
provenance
Sir Richard Wallace [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sir John Murray Scott [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Seligmann [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
2nd half 18th century
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CC0
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en
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Sculpture
statues
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4
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import
dimensionsRaw
H: 13 3/4 in. (34.9 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Signature] On back: CLODION; [Number] On base on paper label: R. Wallace 20; [Number] On base on paper label: Recent acquisition M 89
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terracotta
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2554
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EAN
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471
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