
Vase
Clodion, (Claude Michel) · 1766
Provenance
Ownership history
- George and Florence Blumenthal, New York, by 1930 [see Rubinstein-Bloch 1930]. Daniel Katz, Limited, London, by 1987; sold to the Art Institute, 1987.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
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.
Literature
Published references
- 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.
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