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350

Clodion (i.e. Claude Michel)

Nancy 1738 – 1814 Paris

The Drunken Silenus. Circa 1804

Terracotta relief, slip coating. 40 × 32 × 6,7 cm (15 ¾ × 12 ⅝ × 2 ⅝ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Clodion (i.e. Claude Michel). The Drunken Silenus. Circa 1804.

Estimate:

EUR 10,000

 

- 15,000

USD 11,400

 

- 17,100

Sold for:

13,750 EUR (incl. premium)

Spring Auctions 2016

ORANGERIE Selected Objects, Thursday, 02.06.2016

Information

Terracotta relief, slip coating. 40 × 32 × 6,7 cm (15 ¾ × 12 ⅝ × 2 ⅝ in.). Signed on the plinth lower right: CLODION. Catalogue raisonné: Anne L. Poulet and Giulhem Scherf: Clodion. 1738—1814, exh. cat., with catalogue raisonné, Paris 1992; therein: Mentions imprecises, p. 447–448, p. 448.

Presumably until 1808 François-Joseph le Lièvre de La Grange (1726–1808), Paris / 1981 art dealership Uwe Michael, Bremen / collection of the art historian Wolf Stubbe (1903–1994), Hamburg / family collection

Presumably in the auction catalogue: Nachlass Lièvre de La Grange, Feu M. De Lagrange, Paris, 21 December 1808, lot 108 ("Deux bas-reliefs en terre cuite par Clodion avec différens sujets de faunes et bacchantes“) / Plastiken des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, inventory catalogue of the art dealership Uwe Michael, Bremen 1981, cover and p. 39, no. 14