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A PAIR OF RECTANGULAR TERRACOTTA PREPARATORY RELIEFS FOR THE SALLE DE BAINS OF THE H&212;TEL DE BESENVAL: ONE DEPICTING CUPID AND VENUS, SALMACIS AND HERMAPHRODITE AND LEDA AND THE SWAN AND THE OTHER DEPICTING THE BATH OF VENUS by 
																	Claude Michel Clodion

Claude Michel Clodion

( French, 1738 - 1814 )

A PAIR OF RECTANGULAR TERRACOTTA PREPARATORY RELIEFS FOR THE SALLE DE BAINS OF THE H&212;TEL DE BESENVAL: ONE DEPICTING CUPID AND VENUS, SALMACIS AND HERMAPHRODITE AND LEDA AND THE SWAN AND THE OTHER DEPICTING THE BATH OF VENUS

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Materials:

relief

Size Notes:

33 x 98.4 x 5.7 cm.

Description:

or LOG IN

Markings:

signed 'CLODION'

Literature:

G. Scherf, 'Auteur de Clodion, variations, imitations, rptitions,' Revue de l'Art, no. 91, 1991, p. 58, no. 23 and 24, note 17.A. Poulet and G. Scherf, Clodion: 1738-1814, Muse du Louvre, 17 March-29 June 1992, exh. cat., p. 230.

Provenance:

Peter-Josef-Victor, baron de Besenval et de Brnstatt (1721-1791), htel de Besenval, 142 rue de Grenelle, Paris.Anonymous sale or possibly d'Espagnac or Tricot, Le Brun, Paris, 22 May 1793, no. 187.with Dalva Brothers, New York, 1986.Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above in 1986.

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