CLODION
(b. 1738, Nancy, d. 1814, Paris)

Bacchus and a Nymph with a Child and Grapes

1790-1800
Terracotta, height 47 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The relatively constricted movement of the figures suggests the canon of Directoire taste.




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