Description

Measurements: 36cm Height x 54cm Width

Sculpture signed by claude Michel clodion 1738-1840
Base signed under plate by Basseti

Back cover numbered watch box 44146

Marble and bronze

Claude Michel, known as Clodion, (December 20, 1738 - Paris, March 29, 1814), was a French sculptor, from the Duchy of Lorraine.

He spent his childhood in Nancy and Lille. In 1755, the sculptor Lambert Sigisbert Adam entered the workshop of his maternal uncle as an apprentice, with whom he will remain four years, until his death. After that he went to Jean-Baptiste Pigalles workshop.

In 1759 he obtained the great sculpture prize of the Academie Royale; and in 1761 the first silver medal for studies on models. In 1762, after winning the Prix of Rome, he began his stay in that city, where his activity was considerable between 1767 and 1771. Back in Paris, he established his workshop where, together with his brothers, he worked mainly in terracotta, stucco and other techniques modeling, representing mythological scenes, groups of dancers, nymphs and bathers, in rococo style.

Catherine II of Russia invited him to Russia, and intended to remain in St. Petersburg, but returned to Paris. Among its very numerous patrons were the Rouen council, the Languedoc Parliament, and the General Direction. His works were exhibited very frequently at the Salon de Paris. In 1782 he married Catherine Flore, daughter of the sculptor Augustin Pajou, and later divorced. Revolutionary riots brought Clodion in 1792 to Nancy, where he remained until 1798 as an interior decorator.

His last years were spent in Paris, where he died shortly before the invasion of the city by the troops of the Sixth Coalition after the defeat of Napoleon. At that time he made large neoclassical public monuments.

His major works include Hercule en repos (Hercules at rest), le Fleuve Scamandre (the River Escamandro), le Déluge (the Flood), a bust of Tronchet, etc. One of his last sculptural groups represented Homer beggar, separated by fishermen (1810). Also in these years he made the aquatic decoration of the château de Digoine.

Louis Levêque (later French sculptor; Abbeville, 1814 - Paris, 1875), made a marble bust for his portrait in 1859, preserved in the Louvre

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