FRENCH SCULPTURE CENSUS / RÉPERTOIRE DE SCULPTURE FRANÇAISE

CLODION, Claude MICHEL, called Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle 1738 - Paris 1814

Vase avec décor de cinq femmes faisant un sacrifice Vase 1766 marble

type: other

5 13 14 ?16 x 7 ?16 in. signed and dated on the rim: CLODION-MICH invenit et fe. in Roma 1766

Acc. No.: 1987.55 Credit Line: Through prior acquisition of the George F. Harding Collection; Harold L. Stuart Endowment

Photo credit: ph. Art Institute of Chicago © Artist :

Chicago, Illinois, The Art Institute of Chicago www.artic.edu/aic

Provenance

1930, George (1858-1941) and Florence Blumenthal Collection [see 1930 Rubinstein-Bloch] by 1987, London, Daniel Katz, Limited 1987, Purchased by Art Institute, through prior acquisition of the George F. Harding Collection; Harold L. Stuart Endowment

Bibliography

Museum's website, 20 October 2011 1930 Rubinstein-Bloch Stella Rubinstein-Bloch, Catalogue of the Collection of George and Florence Blumenthal, Vol. V: Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, XVIIIth Century (Paris, 1930), pl. LVIII

1989 Poulet Anne L. Poulet, “A Neoclassical Vase by Clodion,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 15, 2 (1989), pp. 139-53

1992 Levey Michael Levey, “Clodion,” exhibition review, Burlington Magazine (June 1992), pp. 395-97

1992 Scott Barbara Scott, “Clodion as a Monumental Sculptor,” Apollo (June 1992), pp. 395-96

2001 Wardropper Wardropper, Ian, “Collecting European Scupture at The Art Institute of Chicago,” Apollo (September 2001), pp. 3-12

Exhibitions

1935-1936 New York French Painting and Sculpture of the XVIII Century, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 6 November 1935 – 5 January 1936, no. 99

1992 Paris Clodion 1738-1814, Paris, musée du Louvre, 17 mars-29 juin 1992, commissaire : Guilhem Scherf, catalogue : Guilhem Scherf et Anne L. Poulet, cat. n° 7

2000 Philadelphia/Houston Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 16 March – 28 May 2000; and Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, 25 June – 17 September 2000, no. 126