A TERRACOTTA GROUP OF A FAUN AND AN INFANT FAUN

细节

A TERRACOTTA GROUP OF A FAUN AND AN INFANT FAUN
CIRCLE OF PIERRE SURUGUE, LATE 18TH OR EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Minor chips.
14¼in. (36.2cm.) high

出版

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Paris, Musée du Louvre, Clodion 1738-1814, 17 Mar.-29 June 1992, p. 48, fig. 24

拍品专文

The present group corresponds to a terracotta listed in the sale on 8th May 1788 following the death in 1786 of the sculptor Pierre Surugue, who came second to Clodion in the Prix de Sculpture of 1759. It is described as 'un Faune donnant des leçons de flûte à un jeune Enfant' and recorded as being 14 inches high (Paris, loc. cit.).