Design for an Archivolt: Two Fauns Supporting an Urn

Prints and Drawings

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Clodion (Claude Michel)
French, 1738-1814

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Clodion, (Claude Michel)
Title: Design for an Archivolt: Two Fauns Supporting an Urn
Origin: France
Date: 1758–1814
Medium: Red chalk, on buff laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 313 × 460 mm
Credit Line: Worcester Sketch Fund
Reference Number: 1962.352
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New York, Wildenstein and Company, “Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago,” October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 63, as “Two Fauns Supporting an Urn.”

A. Beurdeley (1847-1919) Paris [Lugt 421]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, March 13, 1905, lot 40. Alphonse Kahn; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, December 6, 1920, lot 83. Sold by Durlacher, New York, to the Art Institute, 1962.

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