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Satyress and Child
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Born in Nancy to a family of artists, Clodion was one of the leading French sculptors of the ancien régime and Napoleonic era. He went to Paris to study sculpture in 1755 and worked in Rome from 1767 to 1771. Although inspired by the art of classical antiquity, as seen in the mythological subject of this terracotta relief, Clodion continued to model forms with a softness and delicacy reflective of his training during the Rococo period.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineSatyress and Child, 1803. Clodion (French, 1738–1814). Terracotta; diameter: 30.7 cm (12 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King, 1963.251
