id:			123537
accession number:	1944.131
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.131
updated:		2024-03-26 01:57:57.763000

Child Carrying Fruit and Flowers, 18th-early 19th century. Clodion (French, 1738–1814). Terracotta; overall: 42.2 x 12.8 x 15.3 cm (16 5/8 x 5 1/16 x 6 in.); without base: 35.3 cm (13 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection 1944.131

title:				Child Carrying Fruit and Flowers
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creation date:			18th-early 19th century
creation date earliest:		1750
creation date latest:		1814
current location:		216B French and German
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: 42.2 x 12.8 x 15.3 cm (16 5/8 x 5 1/16 x 6 in.); without base: 35.3 cm (13 7/8 in.)
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	inscription:	Signed: "Clodion"; signature incised on back in the terracotta
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, 1913-1916.', 'opening_date': '1913-01-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Possibly Eugène Tondu (Paris, France) (sold, Paris, April 3, 1865, lot. no. 206)
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	Sir Thomas Gibson Carmichael, Bart., Castle Craig, Scotland, sold at Christie, Manson and Woods
	date: -1902
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	(Sale: Christie, Manson and Woods, London, England, May 12-13, 1902, lot no. 257, to Durlacher Brothers)
	date: May 12-13, 1902
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	(Durlacher Brothers, New York, NY)
	date: 1902-
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	J. Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913), New York, New York
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	Elisabeth Severance Prentiss [Mrs. Francis Fleury Prentiss] (1865–1944), Cleveland, OH, upon her death, held in trust by the estate
	date: -1944
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	Estate of Elisabeth 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. [52], Plate XXII, cat. no. 38; Mentioned: p. 55, cat. no. 38
	url:		https://archive.org/details/Prentiss/page/n59

	Ditner, David Charles. <em>Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century European Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> 1986.
	page number: 	p. 219
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