Antique Bronze Sculpture Bacchante after Clodion

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Antique Bronze Sculpture Bacchante after Clodion

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This is a beautiful antique French dark patinated bronze Bacchante sculpture after Clodion ( 1738-1814) and C1880 in date. This stunning bronze is superbly cast with a brown patina representing a naked Bacchante against a tree with ivy twisted around it. Her right foot is on an urn decorated with a Greek frieze and she is holding some bunches of grapes and it raised on a circular base. Signed on the base, Clodion The attention to detail throughout this piece is second to none and this high quality bronze is made from the lost wax process 'cire perdue'. Condition: In excellent condition. As an antique item its show signs of use commensurate with age, these minor condition issues are mentioned for accuracy and, as seen in the accompanying photographs, the bronze displays beautifully. Dimensions in cm: Height 61 x width 23 x depth 24 Dimensions in inches: Height 2 feet, 0 inches x width 9 inches x depth 9 inches Clodion Original name Claude Michel (born Dec. 20, 1738, Nancy, France—died March 29, 1814, Paris), French sculptor whose works represent the Quintessence of the Rococo style. In 1755 Clodion went to Paris and entered the workshop of Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, his uncle. On his uncle’s death, he became a pupil of J.B. Pigalle. In 1759 he won the grand prize for sculpture at the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, and in 1762 he went to Rome. Catherine II was eager for him to come to St. Petersburg, but he returned to Paris in 1771. There he was successful and frequently exhibited at the Salon. Clodion worked mostly in terra cotta, his preferred subject matter being nymphs, satyrs, bacchantes, and other Classical figures sensually portrayed. He was also, with his brothers, a decorator of such objects as candelabra, clocks, and vases. Perhaps because of his apparent unwillingness to be seriously monumental, he was never admitted to the Royal Academy. Nevertheless, after the Revolution had driven him in 1792 to Nancy, where he lived until 1798, he was flexible enough to adapt himself to Neoclassical monumentality—the relief on the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, representing the entry of the French into Munich, is an example. Lost Wax Method sometimes called by the French name of cire perdue or the Latin, cera perduta is the process by which a bronze or brass is cast from an artists sculpture. In Industrial uses, the modern process is called investment casting. An ancient practice, the process today varies from foundry to foundry, but the steps which are usually used in casting small bronze sculptures in a modern bronze foundry are generally quite standardised.

Dimensions:
Height: 24.02 in (61 cm)Width: 9.06 in (23 cm)Depth: 9.45 in (24 cm)
Materials and Techniques:
Bronze
Place of Origin:
France
Period:
19th Century
Date of Manufacture:
circa 1880
Condition:
Seller Location:
London, GB
Reference Number:
Seller: 084411stDibs: LU95068666033