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Children and satyr children sporting with a goat

Clodion (Claude Michel) (French, Nancy 1738–1814 Paris)

Date:: ca. 1781
Culture:: French (Paris)
Medium:: Terracotta
Dimensions:: 10 x 30-1/2 in. (25.4 x 77.5 cm)
Classification:: Sculpture
Credit Line:: Fletcher Fund, 1959
Accession Number:: 59.87.1

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 552

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Signature: Clodion (lower right)
Provenance

Alexandre Théodore Brongniart (until 1792; sale, Paris, March 22, 1792, no. 135-136) ; [ Desmarets (from 1792) ] ; Docteur P. (in 1840) ; Achille Fould (Minister of Finance to Napoleon III) ; Samuel W. Pray ; [ Acquavella Galleries , 1959; sold to MMA ]
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Clodion (Claude Michel) (18)
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Sculpture (24,342)

Clay (23,631)

Terracotta (8,373)

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Europe (150,372)

France (49,614)

Paris (2,005)
When
A.D. 1600-1800 (67,128)
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