COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
AIC_.1975.138
AMICA Library Year:
2000
Object Type:
Sculpture
Creator Name:
Clodion (Claude Michel)
Creator Nationality:
European; French
Creator Role:
Artist
Creator Dates/Places:
French; 1738-1814
Creator Name-CRT:
Clodion, (Claude Michel) Clodion, (Claude Michel)
Title:
Bust of a Satyr
Title Type:
preferred
View:
full view
Creation Date:
1770/75
Creation Start Date:
1770
Creation End Date:
1775
Materials and Techniques:
Terracotta
Classification Term:
Bust/Head
Subject Description:
Three-quarter portrait of a smiling, curly-haired satyr facing left, a wreath of grapes and foliage on his head, shoulders draped in fur and cloth caught at front center by a cordon of grapes passing over the proper left shoulder and extending over the naked chest.
Creation Place:
Europe,France
Dimensions:
15.7 x 14.3 x 7.9 cm
AMICA Contributor:
The Art Institute of Chicago
Owner Location:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
ID Number:
1975.138
Credit Line:
The Art Institute of Chicago, Bessie Bennett and Charles Netcher Memorial fund
Inscriptions:
Signed CLODION on reverse of plinth in upper case block letters.
Related Image Identifier Link:
AIC_.C41106.TIF
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