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After Claude Michel, called Clodion

Satyre couronnant une Bacchante (Satyr crowning a Bacchante)

No reserve

Auction Closed

May 22, 05:01 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

After Claude Michel, called Clodion (1738-1814)

French, 19th century

Satyre couronnant une Bacchante (Satyr crowning a Bacchante)


bearing the signature: Clodion

terracotta

40cm., 15¾in.


Please note that this lot will not be on public view in our New Bond Street galleries for the auction exhibition, but we would be more than happy to arrange a viewing by appointment at our warehouse in Greenford. To enquire, please contact cameron.dileo@sothebys.com

With Christopher Butterworth, London

The present terracotta is modelled after Clodion's Satyre couronnant une Bacchante, which is in the musée du Louvre (inv. no. RF 2986).


RELATED LITERATURE

A. L. Poulet, G. Scherf, Clodion 1738-1814, exh. cat. musée du Louvre, Paris, 1992, p. 369 - 371, no. 80