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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Vase
    Clodion. Vase, 1766. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001943

    Vase

    by Clodion

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    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.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    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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