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Satyress and Child

Satyress and Child

1803
(French, 1738–1814)
Diameter: 30.7 cm (12 1/16 in.)
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

An invention of European artists of the post-Roman period, a satyress is the female equivalent of the male satyr in classical antiquity. Part human and part goat or horse, the satyress can be recognized by her animal legs and hoofs.

Description

Born in Nancy to a family of artists, Clodion was one of the leading French sculptors of the ancien régime and Napoleonic era. He went to Paris to study sculpture in 1755 and worked in Rome from 1767 to 1771. Although inspired by the art of classical antiquity, as seen in the mythological subject of this terracotta relief, Clodion continued to model forms with a softness and delicacy reflective of his training during the Rococo period.
  • Henri B.-Lasquin (sold, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, December 4-6, 1919, lot. 240
    Private collection, (sold, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, December 5, 1929, lot 25
    Blumka Gallery (New York, New York), by exchange for 1915.387, 1915.72, and 1915.74 (all originally gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. King) , to the Cleveland Museum of Art.
  • The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 157 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 157 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 188 archive.org
    Ditner, David Charles. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century European Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 1986. Reproduced: p. 224
  • The Persistence of Classicism in Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1988-January 15, 1989).
    Neo-classicism: Style and Motif. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).
    Year in Review (1963). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 27, 1963-January 5, 1964).
  • {{cite web|title=Satyress and Child|url=false|author=Clodion|year=1803|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1963.251