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Clodion (Claude Michel) French. 1766. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 552. The entertaining French sculptor Claude Michel—called Clodion— spent nine years in Italy (1762–71), where he attended the French Academy in Rome and studied important collections of antiquities.
Claude Michel, conocido como Clodion, (20 de diciembre de 1738 - París, 29 de marzo de 1814), fue un escultor francés, proveniente del ducado de Lorena. Pasó su infancia en Nancy y Lille.
Artist: Clodion (Claude Michel) (French, Nancy 1738–1814 Paris) Date: ca. 1780–90. Culture: French, Paris. Medium: Terracotta. Dimensions: 8 3/4 x 15 1/4 in. (22.2 x 38.7 cm.) Classification: Sculpture. Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Barbara Lowe Fallass, 1962. Accession Number: 62.213.2
The first successful ascension of the hot-air balloon was achieved by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783. It lasted only ten minutes but was widely celebrated. By the end of the year, the French crown floated a proposed monument. Clodion was one of seven talented sculptors to compete.
Claude Michel (20 December 1738 – 29 March 1814), known as Clodion, was a French sculptor in the Rococo style, especially noted for his works in marble, bronze, & terracotta.
Clodion’s Legacy, Clodion Mania, and the Columbia Sculptures Early to mid-nineteenth century During his final years and until roughly the second half of the nineteenth century, Clodion’s popularity and the demand for his works among collectors diminishes.
But despite the classical allusions and the hints of neoclassicism, Clodion's Zephyrus and Flora represents above all a last joyous chord closing the eighteenth century and, with it, a period...
