id: 122521 accession number: 1942.783 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.783 updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:53.412000 Young Woman and Child at Play, 1780s. Follower of Clodion (French, 1738–1814). Terracotta; overall: 30.8 x 29.1 x 22.4 cm (12 1/8 x 11 7/16 x 8 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John L. Severance 1942.783 title: Young Woman and Child at Play title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1780s creation date earliest: 1780 creation date latest: 1790 current location: 216B French and German creditline: Bequest of John L. Severance copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century technique: terracotta department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: Sculpture type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Clodion (French, 1738–1814) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 30.8 x 29.1 x 22.4 cm (12 1/8 x 11 7/16 x 8 13/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: inscribed: Clodion. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection opening date: 1942-11-12T04:00:00 Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 12, 1942-March 14, 1943). title: Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture opening date: 1975-09-24T04:00:00 Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975). title: Rococo, Revolution, Restoration opening date: 1989-07-11T04:00:00 Rococo, Revolution, Restoration. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-September 24, 1989). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Paul Meurice (1818-1905), Paris, France, upon his death, held in trust by the estate date: footnotes: citations: Estate of Paul Meurice, Paris, France date: 1905-1906 footnotes: citations: (Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, France, May 25, 1906, lot 30) date: May 25, 1906 footnotes: citations: Alphonse de Jonge, Paris, France date: footnotes: citations: French and Co., New York, New York, sold to John L. Severance. date: footnotes: citations: John L. Severance (1863-1936), upon his death, held in trust by the estate. date: footnotes: citations: Estate of John L. Severance, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -1942 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1942- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942. page number: Reproduced: p. [30], Plate XIV, cat. no. 27; Mention: p. 32, cat. no. 27 url: https://archive.org/details/SeveranceBequest/page/n36 Milliken, William M. “Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 29, no. 9 (1942). page number: pp. 140, 151 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141015 Ditner, David Charles. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century European Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 1986. page number: pp. 204-07, fig. 26a url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.783/1942.783_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.783/1942.783_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.783/1942.783_full.tif