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Satyr and Nymph
(18th and 19th Centuries )
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.
Inscription
Provenance
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F. de Villars [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; F. de Villars Sale, 1862, p. 15, no. 6; Baron Thibon [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.
Geographies
France (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 9 13/16 in. (25 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1914
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
27.354