Lot Essay
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
S. Lami, Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs de L'Ecole Française au Dix-Huitième Siécle, Vol. II, Paris, 1911, p. 111
G. Hubert, "A propos d'un 'ami' de Clodion: Marin en Italie" in Clodion et la sculpture française de la fin du XVIIIe siécle, Paris, 1993, pp. 85-118
A. Poulet and G. Scherf, Clodion, 1738-1814, Paris, 1992, p. 416, fig. 236
The present lot is closely related to the life-size marble statue of 'Une Baigneuse', now in the Louvre Museum, which Marin carved in 1808. The statue was exhibited at the Salon of that year, and won immense popularity. Marin worked out the composition of the sculpture in a long series of statuettes, in which he experimented with minor variations in the positions of the hands and subtle changes in the coiffeur.
S. Lami, Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs de L'Ecole Française au Dix-Huitième Siécle, Vol. II, Paris, 1911, p. 111
G. Hubert, "A propos d'un 'ami' de Clodion: Marin en Italie" in Clodion et la sculpture française de la fin du XVIIIe siécle, Paris, 1993, pp. 85-118
A. Poulet and G. Scherf, Clodion, 1738-1814, Paris, 1992, p. 416, fig. 236
The present lot is closely related to the life-size marble statue of 'Une Baigneuse', now in the Louvre Museum, which Marin carved in 1808. The statue was exhibited at the Salon of that year, and won immense popularity. Marin worked out the composition of the sculpture in a long series of statuettes, in which he experimented with minor variations in the positions of the hands and subtle changes in the coiffeur.