Girl with Doves

ca. 1780
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 552
This terracotta statuette relates to Clodion's other standing female figures of 1780s (see also Girl Holding Fruit, 17.120.7), which feature draperies pulled aside to reveal the body and which derive from the Hellenistic Venus Callipygos, then in the Farnese collection.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Girl with Doves
  • Artist: Clodion (Claude Michel) (French, Nancy 1738–1814 Paris)
  • Date: ca. 1780
  • Culture: French, Paris
  • Medium: Cast terracotta
  • Dimensions: Height: 19 1/2 in. (49.5 cm)
  • Classification: Sculpture
  • Credit Line: The Jules Bache Collection, 1949
  • Object Number: 49.7.64a
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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Clodion (Claude Michel) - Girl with Doves - French, Paris - The Metropolitan Museum of Art