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Possibly by Clodion (Claude Michel) French
This is a preliminary model for a bronze clock figure, with the movement potentially being in the globe. In an anonymous sale in Paris, 1790, a terracotta was sold that purported to be Clodion's model for a clock for Catherine the Great of Russia.
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Title: Hercules or Atlas Supporting the Globe
Artist:
Possibly by Clodion (Claude Michel) (French, Nancy 1738–1814 Paris)
Date: ca. 1780
Culture: French, Paris
Medium: Terracotta, painted to resemble bronze
Dimensions: Height: 15 5/8 in. (39.7 cm)
Classification: Sculpture
Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906
Object Number: 07.225.379
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