Clodion (Claude Michel)
French Artist · 1738–1814
8 works across 2 collections on LinkedCulture
The son-in-law of sculptor Augustin Pajou, Clodion trained in Paris in the workshops of his uncle and Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, the most successful sculptor of the time. Upon winning the Prix de Rome, he moved to Italy, sharing a studio with Jean-Antoine Houdon and studying antique, Renaissance, and Baroque sculpture. A highly skillful modeler of clay, Clodion was intensely affected by the new intere
Works
View as IIIF ↗Children and satyr children leading a goat to sacrifice (part of a group)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · ca. 1781
#202266
Children and Satyr Children Sporting with a Goat
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · ca. 1781
#202274
Girl holding fruit
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · probably after model of 1780s
#193420
Girl with Doves
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · ca. 1780
#200559
Model for a Proposed Monument to Commemorate the Invention of the Balloon
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · ca. 1784
#199410
Music
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · ca. 1780–90
#202695
Offering to Priapus
Getty Museum · about 1775
#c8c21ff6-a3c9-4a9e-a954-71bf1e9f14ff
The Vestal
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · ca. 1770
#200812