D`APRÈS CLAUDE MICHEL, DIT CLODION (1738-1814), FIN DU XVIIIE SIÈCLE

Lot 29
11.12.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 29 | D'APRÈS CLAUDE MICHEL, DIT CLODION (1738-1814), FIN DU XVIIIE SIÈCLE
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€ 15 000 – 25 000
D'APRÈS CLAUDE MICHEL, DIT CLODION (1738-1814), FIN DU XVIIIE SIÈCLE
Satyre enfant courant avec un hibou et Satyresse enfant courant avec un nid
deux terres cuites formant paire, portant les signatures 'CLODION' dont une au N inversé, sur des bases en marbre bleu turquin et bronze doré ; accidents
H. totales : 36 cm. et 34,5 cm. (14 1/8 in. et 13 5/8 in.)(2)




Provenance

Maurice Stern (1888-1962) et Alice Stern née Goldschmidt (1906-2008), 5 Avenue George V, Paris ;
Puis par descendance.



Literature

Bibliographie comparative :
G. Scherf (dir.), Clodion (1738-1814), cat. exp., Paris, Musée du Louvre, 1992, pp. 136-145, cat. 16-17.
J. G. Peiffer, "La statuaire céramique et ses pratiques d'atelier au XVIIIe siècle. Œuvres originales, tirages originaux, éditions en terre cuite : critères d'identification", in. G. Scherf (dir.), Clodion et la sculpture française de la fin du XVIIIe siècle, actes de colloque, Paris, 1992, p. 518 et fig. 4 à 7.



Further details

TWO TERRACOTTA GROUPS OF YOUNG SATYRS WITH OWLS, AFTER CLAUDE MICHEL, KNOWN AS CLODION (1738–1814), LATE 18TH CENTURY

These two mythological figures belong to a corpus of works by Claude Michel, called Clodion (1738–1814), and his circle, which enjoyed great success in the final decades of the 18th century and was widely disseminated to meet the desires and tastes of patrons. Clodion, a central figure in French sculpture of his time, established himself as the undisputed master of terracotta. A pupil and nephew of Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, and later a pensionnaire at the Académie de France in Rome, he developed a distinctive style that combined refined modeling, freedom of invention, and a renewal of iconographic themes.

During Clodion’s lifetime, a number of examples of his Young Satyr running with an owl, executed in terracotta, bronze, or marble, are mentioned in exhibition and sale catalogues, sometimes paired with the Young Satyress. Clodion first conceived the figure of the Young Satyr in marble, which he exhibited at the Salon of 1773. We do not know, however, precisely when he created the Young Satyress as its pendant.

Within public collections, three types of Young Satyr can be distinguished today, differing in the cord crossing the torso as well as in the size and position of the animal skin draped over the left hip: at the Cleveland Museum of Art, a strip of fabric crosses the body (inv. 1944.129); at the Musée du Louvre (inv. RF.2831 and RF.2832), the Philadelphia Museum of Art (inv. 1939.41.32), and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (inv. 44.576 and 44.577), it is a vine garland; at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (inv. R.B.K 16989), the vine cord crosses the body while the animal skin covers the groin.

It is hardly surprising that works derived from such an emblematic model should have found a place in this collection, which brings together the leading names in 18th century French art. Their presence forms a coherent part of a group representative of the taste of Maurice Stern.

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