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拍品專文
These bronze figures are based upon a pair of terracotta figures that Clodion (1738-1814) exhibited at the Grand Salon of 1763. These original terracottas, and their numerous copies, differed from the present pair for their attributes: one held an owl and a thrysus, while the other held a bird within a nest (see, for example, the autographed pair from the Cleveland Museum of Art illustrated in A. Poulet, Clodion: 1738-1814, exhib. cat. Musée du Louvre, Paris, 17 March - 29 June 1992, pp. 136-142, cat. no. 16-17).
Interestingly, a pair of related bronze candelabra at the Louvre, Paris, (illustrated A. Poulet, ibid., p. 145-49, cat. no. 20-21) were recorded in the sale of the cabinet of M. Tronchin, Paris, 12 January 1780, as no. 140: Par Clodion. deux enfans tenant chacun deux brandons à bobeches de cuivre doré d'or moulu, sur leur socle de cuivre doré. Ils portent 11 pouc. de haut. These candelabra were later sold in a subsequent anonymous sale that was well attended by such marchand-merciers as Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun on 11 December 1780. In this second sale, Dulac, probably the mercer Dulac or even the seductive Madame Dulac described by William Cole in his diary of 1765 (W. Cole, A Journal of my Journey to Paris in the year 1765, London, reprinted 1731, p. 233-34), purchased the candelabra for 438,4 livres. From this, the possibility of an ever productive marchand-mercier commissioning reproductions of the popular Clodion originals, using the Tronchin pair as the point of departure, for sale as either candelabra of figures is suggested.
Interestingly, a pair of related bronze candelabra at the Louvre, Paris, (illustrated A. Poulet, ibid., p. 145-49, cat. no. 20-21) were recorded in the sale of the cabinet of M. Tronchin, Paris, 12 January 1780, as no. 140: Par Clodion. deux enfans tenant chacun deux brandons à bobeches de cuivre doré d'or moulu, sur leur socle de cuivre doré. Ils portent 11 pouc. de haut. These candelabra were later sold in a subsequent anonymous sale that was well attended by such marchand-merciers as Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun on 11 December 1780. In this second sale, Dulac, probably the mercer Dulac or even the seductive Madame Dulac described by William Cole in his diary of 1765 (W. Cole, A Journal of my Journey to Paris in the year 1765, London, reprinted 1731, p. 233-34), purchased the candelabra for 438,4 livres. From this, the possibility of an ever productive marchand-mercier commissioning reproductions of the popular Clodion originals, using the Tronchin pair as the point of departure, for sale as either candelabra of figures is suggested.