
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001943Vase
by Clodion
Inscriptions
Signed and dated: Clodion Mich invenit et fe. in Roma 1766 (on rim)
Provenance
George and Florence Blumenthal, New York, by 1930 [see Rubinstein-Bloch 1930]. Daniel Katz, Limited, London, by 1987; sold to the Art Institute, 1987.
Exhibition history
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, “French Painting and Sculpture of the XVIII Century,” 6 November 1935 – 5 January 1936, no. 99. Paris, Musée du Louvre, “Clodion,” 20 March – 29 June 1992, no. 7. Philadelphia Museum of Art, “Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century,” 16 March – 28 May 2000, and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 25 June – 17 September 2000, no. 126.
Publications
Stella Rubinstein-Bloch, Catalogue of the Collection of George and Florence Blumenthal, Vol. V: Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, XVIIIth Century (Paris, 1930), pl. LVIII. Anne L. Poulet, “A Neoclassical Vase by Clodion,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 15, 2 (1989), pp. 139-53. Michael Levey, “Clodion,” exhibition review, Burlington Magazine (June 1992), pp. 395-97. Barbara Scott, “Clodion as a Monumental Sculptor,” Apollo (June 1992), pp. 395-96. Wardropper, Ian, “Collecting European Scupture at The Art Institute of Chicago,” Apollo (Soeptember 2001), pp. 3-12.
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
- 1766
- Medium
- Marble
- Dimensions
- 36.4 × 19.9 cm (14 5/16 × 7 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- vase
- Style
- 18th Century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Through prior acquisition of the George F. Harding Collection; Harold L. Stuart Endowment
- Accession no.
- 1987.55
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