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Bacchante and Infant Satyr

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Title/s	Bacchante and Infant Satyr
Maker/s	Clodion (Claude Michel) (sculptor) [ULAN info: French sculptor, 1738-1814]
Category	sculpture
Name	relief
School/Style	Neoclassical
Description	Terracotta. Oval, with figures in relief. In the centre a Bacchante holding hands with an infant satyr, who dances on her left foot, two other small satyrs stand at a pedestal on which burns a fire. At the bottom of the plaque a basket of fruit.
Production Place	France (country)
Technique Description	terracotta
Dimensions	height: (whole): 10 1/2 in width: (whole): 8 3/4 in
Period	18th century Louis XVI
Date	1774
Provenance	given: The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum 1960 (Filtered for: Applied Arts collection) Purchased from Paul Wengraf The Arcade Gallery, Bond Street, London, who purchased it from Bochler in Germany. Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Inscriptions/Marks	signature Position: lower front Content: Clodion 1774 Description: signed and dated
Documentation	(1961) Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Fifty-second Annual Report, for the Year 1960, Cambridge (Cambs.) [page: p. 2] [comments: Publ. Illustrated, front cover and p. 2] Poulet, Anne L. (1992) Clodion 1738-1814, Colmar, Paris [page: p. 425] [comments: Ref. This example cited as dated 1776, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 17th March-29th June 1992, p. 425, titled as Bacchante faisant danser un satyre enfant, avec des autour d'un autel. They state that there are numerous examples.] Scherf, Guilhem Autour de Clodion, variations, imitations, repetitions, [page: pp. 47-59] Source title: Revue de l'Art (1991) [comments: Ref. see pp. 47-59, see p. 53] (1964) Apollo, September 1964, [page: p. 221] Source title: Apollo (September 1964) [comments: Cf. see p. 221, illustrated plaque by Joseph Clinand that has a similar motif as part of the composition]
Other Notes	Francis Watson saw this plaque 21st June 1960 and considered it perfectly genuine. Not mentioned in Therion or in Dictionnaire Des Sculpteurs by Lami.
Accession Number	M.2-1960 (Applied Arts) (Reference Number: 29873; Input Date: 2001-05-31 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)

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