Minerva

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Artist: Clodion (Claude Michel) (French, Nancy 1738–1814 Paris)
Date: 1766
Medium: Terracotta
Dimensions: Height: 18 3/4 in. (47.6 cm)
Type: Sculpture
Classification: Sculpture
Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Credit line: Purchase, Charles Ulrick and Josephine Bay Foundation Inc. Gift, 1975
Accession no.: 1975.312.6

Bacchus and a Nymph with a Child and Grapes
Clodion (Claude Michel)
ca. 1790–1800 · Sculpture
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00016667
The Intoxication of Wine
Clodion (Claude Michel)
ca. 1780–90 · Sculpture
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00016669
Girl holding fruit
Clodion (Claude Michel)
probably after model of 1780s · Sculpture
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00016674
Model for a Proposed Monument to Commemorate the Invention of the Balloon
Clodion (Claude Michel)
ca. 1784 · Sculpture
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00016707

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.