About This Artwork
Clodion (Claude Michel)
French, 1738-1814
Bust of a Satyr1770/75
Terracotta
6 3/16 x 5 5/8 x 3 1/8 in. (15.7 x 14.3 x 7.9 cm)
Signed CLODION on reverse of plinth in upper case block letters.
Bessie Bennett and Charles Netcher Memorial Fund, 1975.138
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago," 24 January – 28 March 1976, no. 134.
Art Institute of Chicago, "European Terracotta Sculpture from the Permanent Collection," 27 July – 13 October 1983 [no cat.].
Publication History
Ian Wardropper, "Adam to Clodion: Four French Terracotta Sculptures," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 11, 1 (1984), p. 32, figs. 14, 15.
For comparison, see:
H. Thirion, Les Adam et Clodion (Paris: A. Quantin, Imprimeur-Éditeur, 1885), p. 402, 285 (ill.).
Terence Hodgkinson, James A. Rothschild Collection: Sculpture (Switzerland, 1970), pp. 90-113, nos. 33-38.
Terence Hodgkinson, “Houdon and Clodion,” Apollo, 93 (May 1971), p. 397, fig. 9.
Ownership History
David Peel, London, before 1973 [according to copy of letter from Gerald Stiebel, April 7, 2002, in curatorial file; see also Chicago 1976 exh. cat.]. Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York, by 1975; sold to the Art Institute, 1975.