A set of three framed gilt bronze Bacchic relief roundels after Claude Michel, called Clodion, (French, 1738-1814), called Clodion, 19th century, each depicting a figural scene with nymphs and infant Satyrs, later framed, 31cm diameter, the frames 43cm squareThe models for the present lot are habitually attributed to Clodion. Two are illustrated in Pierre Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorés Français du XVIII siècle, Picard, 1987, p. 162 (fig. 197). Those are said to have decorated the base of a clock. The third, with the truncated image of the maiden, is also to a model attributed to Clodion. A terracotta version of this is in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, Accession number 1942.5.31.
A set of three framed gilt bronze Bacchic relief roundels after Claude Michel, called Clodion, (French, 1738-1814), called Clodion, 19th century, each depicting a figural scene with nymphs and infant Satyrs, later framed, 31cm diameter, the frames 43cm squareThe models for the present lot are habitually attributed to Clodion. Two are illustrated in Pierre Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorés Français du XVIII siècle, Picard, 1987, p. 162 (fig. 197). Those are said to have decorated the base of a clock. The third, with the truncated image of the maiden, is also to a model attributed to Clodion. A terracotta version of this is in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, Accession number 1942.5.31.
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