Vase

1766

Clodion (Claude Michel; French, 1738–1814)

Status: On View, Gallery 223
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Clodion, (Claude Michel)
Title: Vase
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1766
Medium: Marble
Inscriptions: Signed and dated: Clodion Mich invenit et fe. in Roma 1766 (on rim)
Dimensions: 36.4 × 19.9 cm (14 5/16 × 7 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Through prior acquisition of the George F. Harding Collection; Harold L. Stuart Endowment
Reference Number: 1987.55
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Stella Rubinstein-Bloch, Catalogue of the Collection of George and Florence Blumenthal, Vol. V: Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, XVIIIth Century (Paris, 1930), pl. LVIII.
Anne L. Poulet, “A Neoclassical Vase by Clodion,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 15, 2 (1989), pp. 139-53.
Michael Levey, “Clodion,” exhibition review, Burlington Magazine (June 1992), pp. 395-97.
Barbara Scott, “Clodion as a Monumental Sculptor,” Apollo (June 1992), pp. 395-96.
Wardropper, Ian, “Collecting European Scupture at The Art Institute of Chicago,”
Apollo (Soeptember 2001), pp. 3-12.

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, “French Painting and Sculpture of the XVIII Century,” 6 November 1935 – 5 January 1936, no. 99.
Paris, Musée du Louvre, “Clodion,” 20 March – 29 June 1992, no. 7.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, “Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century,” 16 March – 28 May 2000, and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 25 June – 17 September 2000, no. 126.

George and Florence Blumenthal, New York, by 1930 [see Rubinstein-Bloch 1930]. Daniel Katz, Limited, London, by 1987; sold to the Art Institute, 1987.

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