Study for The Deluge
Claude Michel, called Clodion
(French, 1738–1814)
about 1800
Object PlaceFrance
Medium/TechniqueTerracotta
DimensionsOverall: 26.3 x 15 x 9.8cm (10 3/8 x 5 7/8 x 3 7/8in.)
Credit LineMary S. and Edward J. Holmes Fund
Accession number1989.310
On View
Not on viewClassificationsSculpture
Collections
ProvenanceBetween the late 1950s and 1968, probably purchased in France by Joseph H. Hirshhorn (b. 1899 - d. 1981), Cap d’Antibes [1]; 1981, at Hirshhorn's death, bequeathed to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. (Inv. No. S.86.48); deaccessioned by the Hirshhorn; November 1, 1989, Hirshhorn Museum sale, Christie's, New York, to Anthony Roth, Fine Arts Ltd., London; sold by Anthony Roth to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 29, 1989)
NOTE:
[1] Anne L. Poulet, “Clodion’s Sculpture of the Déluge,” Journal of the Museum of Fine Arts 3 (1991), 51-76, here 72, endnote 16
NOTE:
[1] Anne L. Poulet, “Clodion’s Sculpture of the Déluge,” Journal of the Museum of Fine Arts 3 (1991), 51-76, here 72, endnote 16
