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Lot 1014 Dα

A terracotta group with a faun playing the flute

Auction 1152 - overview Cologne
29.05.2020, 14:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €
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A terracotta group with a faun playing the flute

Three-figure group on a round plinth depicting a faun sitting on a rock beside a dish of grapes, playing a flute and watching as a pair of small satyrs dance in front of him. Engraved "CLODION. 1785." to the back of the rock. Some older chips, glued repairs, and restorations. H 48.5 cm.
Follower of Claude Michel Clodion, 19th C.

Claude Michel, known as Clodion (1738 – 1814), was one of the most famous European sculptors of the 18th century. He was born in Nancy but moved to Paris in his youth, where he worked in the studios of his uncle Lambert-Sigisbert Adam and Jean Baptiste Pigalle. He resided in Rome from 1762 to 1771 and there he studied the works of antiquity. Over the years, he gained an increasing number of illustrious patrons, including Catherine the Great of Russia and the Duc de la Rochefoucauld. His terracotta groups of fauns, satyrs, and nymphs are some of his most popular and well-known compositions. A further example of this group is housed in the Musée national du Moyen Âge in Paris.

Provenance

Belgian private collection.