Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001906Bust of a Satyr
by Clodion
Inscriptions
Inscribed: CLODION (reverse of plinth)
Provenance
David Peel, London, before 1973 [according to copy of letter from Gerald Stiebel, April 7, 2002, in curatorial file; see also Chicago 1976 exh. cat.]. Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York, by 1975; sold to the Art Institute, 1975.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago," 24 January – 28 March 1976, no. 134. Art Institute of Chicago, "European Terracotta Sculpture from the Permanent Collection," 27 July – 13 October 1983 [no cat.].
Publications
Ian Wardropper, "Adam to Clodion: Four French Terracotta Sculptures," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 11, 1 (1984), p. 32, figs. 14, 15. For comparison, see: H. Thirion, Les Adam et Clodion (Paris: A. Quantin, Imprimeur-Éditeur, 1885), p. 402, 285 (ill.). Terence Hodgkinson, James A. Rothschild Collection: Sculpture (Switzerland, 1970), pp. 90-113, nos. 33-38. Terence Hodgkinson, “Houdon and Clodion,” Apollo, 93 (May 1971), p. 397, fig. 9.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Clodion (Claude Michel; French, 1738–1814)
- Date
- 1770–75
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Dimensions
- 15.8 × 15.3 × 8 cm (6 3/16 × 6 × 3 1/8 in.); Base: 10.8 × 11.4 cm (4 5/16 × 4 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- bust/head
- Style
- 18th Century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Bessie Bennett and Charles Netcher Memorial Fund
- Accession no.
- 1975.138
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