Claude Michel, called Clodion
Le Sacrifice à l'Amour (The Sacrifice to Love)
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June 10, 02:51 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Claude Michel, called Clodion
Nancy 1738 - 1814 Paris
Le Sacrifice à l'Amour (The Sacrifice to Love)
terracotta, in a gilt wood frame
relief: 23.5 by 26cm., 9¼ by 10¼in.
frame: 35.5 by 38.5cm., 14 by 15⅛in.
with a label to the reverse inscribed: terre cuite / de Marin / 61504
Louis François de Bourbon, Prince de Conti (1716-1776), Paris;
His second sale, Paris, 15 March 1779, lot 285 (illustrated by Gabriel de Saint Aubin in his annotated auction catalogue);
Eleanor Post Close and Antal Post De Bekessy collections;
Their sale, Sotheby's Paris, 19 December 2017, lot 294
A. Poulet, G. Scherf, Clodion 1738-1814, exh. cat. Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1992, pp. 157-160, no. 23;
Les Adam: La Sculpture en heritage, exh. cat. Musée des Beaux Arts, Nancy, 2021-2022, p. 292, fig. 173
Paris, Salon, 1773, no. 249