id:			123533
accession number:	1944.129
share license status:	CC0
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Young Satyress Running with an Owl's Nest and Young Satyr Running with an Owl (pair of statuettes), 1770s. Clodion (French, 1738–1814). Terracotta; overall: 32.1 x 14.8 x 18.1 cm (12 5/8 x 5 13/16 x 7 1/8 in.); with base: 45.1 cm (17 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection 1944.129

title:				Young Satyress Running with an Owl's Nest and Young Satyr Running with an Owl (pair of statuettes)
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creation date:			1770s
creation date earliest:		1770
creation date latest:		1779
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creditline:			The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection
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culture:	France, 18th century
technique:	terracotta
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	Sculpture
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

* Clodion (French, 1738–1814)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 32.1 x 14.8 x 18.1 cm (12 5/8 x 5 13/16 x 7 1/8 in.); with base: 45.1 cm (17 3/4 in.)
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	inscription:	signature incised on back:  CLODION.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Clodion
	opening date:   1992-03-17T05:00:00
	<i>Clodion</i>. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France (March 17-June 29, 1992).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Clodion</em>. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France (March 17-June 29, 1992).', 'opening_date': '1992-03-17T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Private collection, France
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	Arnold Seligman and Rey and Co., Paris, France
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	French and Co., New York, New York, sold to Mrs. Francis F. Prentiss
	date: -1929
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	Elisabeth Severance Prentiss [Mrs. Francis Fleury Prentiss] (1865–1944), Cleveland Heights, Ohio), upon her death, held in trust by the estate.
	date: 1929-1944
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	Estate of Elizabeth Severance Prentiss, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1944
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1944-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection : Bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944.</em> [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. [54], Plate XXIV, cat. no. 36; p. [57], Plate XXV, cat. no. 37; Mentioned: p. 50, 55, cat. no. 36, 37
	url:		https://archive.org/details/Prentiss/page/n54

	Milliken, William M. “French Furniture and Sculpture.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 31, no. 6 (1944).
	page number: 	pp. 98, 101
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141133

	Ditner, David Charles. <em>Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century European Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. 1986.
	page number: 	pp. 209-216, fig. 27a
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	Clodion, and Anne L. Poulet. Clodion, 1738-1814: Musée du Louvre, Paris, 17 mars-29 juin 1992. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1992.
	page number: 	pp. 135-37, cat. no. 17
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	Scott, Barbara, "Clodion as a Monumental Sculptor," <em>Apollo, </em>V. CXXII, no. 364 (June 1992).
	page number: 	p. 395.
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	Scherf, Guilhem. <em>Clodion et la sculpture française de la fin du XVIIIe siècle: actes du colloque organisé au musée du Louvre par le service culturel les 20 et 21 mars 1992</em>. Paris: La Documentation française, 1993.
	page number: 	pp. 516-517, fig. nos. 4,5,6,7
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	"1992 Annual Report." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 80, no. 6 (1993): 215-95.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 247
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161418

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