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Bust of a Satyr
Clodion, (Claude Michel) · 1770–75
Provenance
Ownership history
- 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.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
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.].
Literature
Published references
- 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.
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