Lot Essay
The present model is based on a lifesize plaster figure of the same subject executed by Claude Michel called Clodion in 1782 for a niche in the dining room of the chàteau Maisons-Lafitte.
Property From A NEW YORK ESTATE
Bequeathed to an EASTERN UNIVERSITY
AN ALLEGORICAL TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF AUTUMN
Details
AN ALLEGORICAL TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF AUTUMN
ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH-CHARLES MARIN, FRENCH, LATE 18TH CENTURY
The loosely draped bacchante leaning against a tree trunk, her right arm resting on a branch, her right hand holding up an animal skin draped across her shoulders and filled with grapes and holding a wine goblet, gazing up at the bunch of grapes in her raised left hand, inscribed c. marin (sic) (raised arm repaired, minor nicks) ----- 15¾ in. (40 cm.) high, on marbelized wood columnar plinth raised on ball feet, velvet-covered wood under-base and fitted brass-mounted glass dome
ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH-CHARLES MARIN, FRENCH, LATE 18TH CENTURY
The loosely draped bacchante leaning against a tree trunk, her right arm resting on a branch, her right hand holding up an animal skin draped across her shoulders and filled with grapes and holding a wine goblet, gazing up at the bunch of grapes in her raised left hand, inscribed c. marin (sic) (raised arm repaired, minor nicks) ----- 15¾ in. (40 cm.) high, on marbelized wood columnar plinth raised on ball feet, velvet-covered wood under-base and fitted brass-mounted glass dome
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
A. Poulet and G. Scherf, Clodion 1738-1814, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1992, cat. no. 52 and no. 95 for mention of other terracottas attributed to Marin with the same unusual signature as the present example
A. Poulet and G. Scherf, Clodion 1738-1814, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1992, cat. no. 52 and no. 95 for mention of other terracottas attributed to Marin with the same unusual signature as the present example