CLODION, Claude MICHEL, called

Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle 1738 - Paris 1814

Sacrifice à Bacchus

Sacrifice to Bacchus

1787

bronze

relief

Dimensions (HxWxD): 8 ¹⁄₂ x 20 in.

signed right front corner: Clodion
inscription(s): a Monseigneur le Prince de Rohan Hommage de L'auteur M.C. 1787

Acc. No.: formerly/autrefois G.58.4.5

Credit Line: Deaccessioned by North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 1993

Photo credit: scan from museum provided photo in P. Fusco file, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 24 October 2011

© Artist : public domain

© Artist : public domain

formerly/autrefois Raleigh, North Carolina, North Carolina Museum of Art

www.ncartmuseum.org

Provenance

• Hollywood, Michael Hall
• 1957, Sold to NCMA
• 1958, Gift of John Motley Morehead
• 1993, July 28, Deaccessioned by North Carolina Museum of Art
• 1994, January 20, Sold at Sotheby's Arcade Auctions, New York, sale 1455, lot 24

Bibliography

• 1958 Valentiner
  W. R. Valentiner, "A Bronze Plaque by Clodion," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 2, no. 1 (Summer 1958), 23-27, illus. (b-w) 23

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