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Clodion (sh)




orig. Claude Michel

born Dec. 20, 1738, Nancy, Fr.
died March 29, 1814, Paris

French sculptor.

In 1755 he entered his uncle's workshop in Paris, and later he became a student of Jean-Baptiste Pigalle. In 1759 he won the grand prize at the Royal Academy and embarked on a successful career, first in Rome and then in Paris, where he exhibited regularly at the Salon. He excelled at small statuettes and terra-cotta figures of nymphs, satyrs, and groups. After the French Revolution he changed his style to suit the Neoclassical taste for monumentality; he worked on the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel (1805-06) and the Vend?me Column (1806-09).


"Female Satyr Carrying Two Putti," terra-cotta statuette by Clodion; in the Walters Art ...

By courtesy of the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore