A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF A NYMPH, after Clodion, shown naked and langorously reclining on drapery, leaning against a clock with white enamelled dial and timepiece movement, on naturalistically cast ground, on a white and grey marble base (loose), late 19th Century

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A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF A NYMPH, after Clodion, shown naked and langorously reclining on drapery, leaning against a clock with white enamelled dial and timepiece movement, on naturalistically cast ground, on a white and grey marble base (loose), late 19th Century

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Paris, Musée du Louvre, Clodion, 1992, pp. 248-51

Lot Essay

The present bronze is a copy of Clodion's nereid La Source, a life-size stone figure executed for the bathroom of the hôtel of Baron de Besenval in Paris, subsequently sold to Baron Edmond de Rothschild and currently not located. One of Clodion's most appealing works, it was widely reproduced during the 19th century.

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