orig. Claude Michel
born Dec. 20, 1738, Nancy, Fr.
died March 29, 1814, Paris
French sculptor.
In 1755 he entered his uncle's workshop in Paris, and later he became a student of Jean-Baptiste Pigalle . In 1759 he won the grand prize at the Royal Academy and embarked on a successful career, first in Rome and then in Paris, where he exhibited regularly at the Salon . He excelled at small statuettes and terra-cotta figures of nymphs, satyrs, and groups. After the French Revolution he changed his style to suit the Neoclassical taste for monumentality; he worked on the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel (180506) and the Vendôme Column (180609).
"Female Satyr Carrying Two Putti," terra-cotta statuette by Clodion; in the Walters Art ...
By courtesy of the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore