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accession number:	1963.251
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url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.251
updated:		2023-03-20 14:14:16.471000

Satyress and Child, 1803. Clodion (French, 1738–1814). Terracotta; diameter: 30.7 cm (12 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King 1963.251

title:				Satyress and Child
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creation date:			1803
creation date earliest:		1803
creation date latest:		1803
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creditline:			Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King
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culture:	France, early 19th Century
technique:	terracotta
department:	Modern European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	Mod Euro - Sculpture 1800-1960
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

* Clodion (French, 1738–1814)  - artist

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measurements: Diameter: 30.7 cm (12 1/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	inscribed recto lower right:  CLODION; inscribed verso:  A/L'ami Jean/Souvenir offert/ en mai/ 1803.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review (1963)
	opening date:   1963-11-27T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review (1963)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 27, 1963-January 5, 1964).

	title:		Neo-classicism: Style and Motif
	opening date:   1964-09-23T04:00:00
	<i>Neo-classicism: Style and Motif</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).

	title:		The Persistence of Classicism in Sculpture
	opening date:   1988-11-16T05:00:00
	<i>The Persistence of Classicism in Sculpture</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1988-January 15, 1989).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Henri B.-Lasquin (sold, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, December 4-6, 1919, lot. 240
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	Private collection, (sold, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, December 5, 1929, lot 25
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	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.
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fun fact:
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.

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wall 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.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 157
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n181

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 157
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n181

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 188
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n208

	Ditner, David Charles. <em>Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century European Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. 1986.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 224
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IMAGES

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