Pair Dance And Play Music Putti Bronze Louis XV The Clodion Model

Pair Dancing and playing music Putti Patinated and gilded bronze Louis XV The model of Clodion h. 25 resp. 23 cm Clodion, in reality Claude Michel (born December 20, 1738 in Nancy and died March 28, 1814 in Paris), worked under the pseudonym "Clodion" and is considered an important representative of French Louis-style sculpture. sixteen. At the age of 17, he came to Paris to train in the studio of his uncle Lambert-Sigisbert Adam. After his death in 1759, he became a pupil of the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pigalle. The same year, the Royal Academy awarded him the Grand Prize for Sculpture and he entered the Royal School of Protected Pupils. From 1762 to 1771, Clodion stayed in Rome and produced smaller sculptures such as vases, statuettes and bas-reliefs, but also copies based on ancient models. In Rome, he worked, among others, for the Duke of La Rochefoucauld and for Catherine the Great, who tried in vain to persuade him to settle in Russia. Clodion returned to Paris instead in April 1771. His reputation as an important sculptor had already preceded him. On May 29, 1773, his statue of a Jupiter throwing lightning earned him the title "Agréé de l'Académie de Paris". In 1779, he executed his first commission for the king: a marble statue of Montesquieu, which would later be found at the Palais des Instituts in Paris. On February 26, 1781, he married Catherine-Flore (1764-1841), a daughter of the sculptor Augustin Pajou, but he divorced her in 1794. From this marriage was born a daughter, Marguerite Augustine, who later joined her pupil , the sculptor Joseph Charles Marin. In addition to official commissions, Clodion made sculptures for private collectors, including many fauns, nymphs, satyrs, putti and graceful maidens, as well as beautiful vases, clocks, candlesticks and candlesticks. He preferred to work with marble and terracotta. The great demand for the sculptural works of Claude Michel gen. Clodion also had him perform certain compositions several times. His fruitful work was interrupted by the start of the revolution, and he retired to Nancy for some time in 1795. When he returned to Paris in 1798, he adapted to the modern style, but failed to repeat his earlier success. Inv.No.0.604 1.875 €