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AFTER CLODION (1738-1814), FRENCH, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY, | Infant Satyr Running with a cupInfant Satyr Running with a Bird's Nest
估價
60,000 - 80,000 EUR
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描述
- Infant Satyr Running with a cupInfant Satyr Running with a Bird's Nest
- pair of terracottas, over life-size
- H. (satyr) 103 cm, 40 ½ in.; H (satyress) 108 cm, 42 ½ in.
來源
Formerly in the collection of the castle of Vic-sur-Sère (Cantal, France).
出版
RELATED LITERATURE
A. Poulet, G. Scherf, Clodion 1738-1814, exh. cat. Louvre museum, Paris, 1992, pp. 136-145.
A. Poulet, G. Scherf, Clodion 1738-1814, exh. cat. Louvre museum, Paris, 1992, pp. 136-145.
拍品資料及來源
The young infant satyr holding a nest containing three frightened chicks is made after Clodion's model of which several versions are known. However, the young satyr holding a cup is a recreation after Clodion's Satyr child running with an owl, pendant of the girl satyr, of which several versions are also known. A marble of the satyr with an owl was exhibited in the 1773 Salon (current location unknown). The model appears again in terracotta on April 8, 1777, during the sale of the Prince of Conti's collection, as a pair with a Young Girl holding a pigeon and a cage of which no other version is known (no 1272 and 1273 ; current location unknown).
A pair of terracottas including a satyress of the same model as the present is mentioned for the first time with certainty, in the Chariot sale, January 28th 1788: "Two children including a little girl carrying an owl's nest, & the other carrying the father of the brood; they are both in the movement of the race. Height 13 in." (see A. Poulet, G. Scherf, op.cit., p. 140). Several versions with slight variations are in public collections, including a pair in the Cleveland Museum of Art (inv. no. 1944.129 and 1944.130), and a further in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (inv. no. 44.576 and 44.577), another again in the Musée Historique de Lorraine, in Nancy (inv. no. RF 2831 and 2832; date uncertain). The garland of vine leaves around the torso of the young satyr reminds of terracottas in Houston and Nancy. Contrary to the three examples previously mentioned, the skin of a beast falling along the left hip modestly hides his sex, as in the version of the Rijksmuseum (inv. no. R.B.K. 16989).
Continuously in great favour among collectors, the models of these two children satyrs by Clodion were copied throughout the 19th century. It seems, however, that the two present terracottas, which compositions are slightly different from Clodion's models, are the only known examples in such impressive dimensions, larger than life-size.
A pair of terracottas including a satyress of the same model as the present is mentioned for the first time with certainty, in the Chariot sale, January 28th 1788: "Two children including a little girl carrying an owl's nest, & the other carrying the father of the brood; they are both in the movement of the race. Height 13 in." (see A. Poulet, G. Scherf, op.cit., p. 140). Several versions with slight variations are in public collections, including a pair in the Cleveland Museum of Art (inv. no. 1944.129 and 1944.130), and a further in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (inv. no. 44.576 and 44.577), another again in the Musée Historique de Lorraine, in Nancy (inv. no. RF 2831 and 2832; date uncertain). The garland of vine leaves around the torso of the young satyr reminds of terracottas in Houston and Nancy. Contrary to the three examples previously mentioned, the skin of a beast falling along the left hip modestly hides his sex, as in the version of the Rijksmuseum (inv. no. R.B.K. 16989).
Continuously in great favour among collectors, the models of these two children satyrs by Clodion were copied throughout the 19th century. It seems, however, that the two present terracottas, which compositions are slightly different from Clodion's models, are the only known examples in such impressive dimensions, larger than life-size.