About the Artwork
Double-Handled Vase with Relief of Sacrifice to Venus
1766
Clodion
1738-1814
French
Unknown
Terracotta
Overall: 14 5/8 × 7 1/2 × 6 1/2 inches (37.1 × 19.1 × 16.5 cm)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Alvan Macauley, Jr. Fund
69.295
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed and dated, on lip: CLODION IN ROMA 1766
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Provenance
Paul L. Grigaut. 1969-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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A Connoisseur's Choice, from the Collection of Paul L. Grigaut. Exh. cat., University of Michigan Museum of Art. Ann Arbor, 1969, no. 32.
Poulet, A.L. "A Neoclassical Vase by Clodion." The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 15, no. 2 (1990): p. 150, fig. 17 (ill.).
Poulet, A.L. and G. Scherf. Clodion 1738-1814. Exh. cat., Musée du Louvre. Paris, 1992, no. 6, pp. 99-101.
Scherf, G. "Autour de Clodion, variations, imitations, repetitions." Revue de l'art (1991): pp. 51, 58, note 53.
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Clodion, Double-Handled Vase with Relief of Sacrifice to Venus, 1766, terracotta. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Alvan Macauley, Jr. Fund, 69.295.
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