Clodion Nymph and Satyr

Clodion's career spanned the last decades of the ancient regime through the French Revolution and Napoleon's reign. He embraced his era's taste for antiquity. This work is one of the most minutely studied of all the Bacchic orgies that were Clodion's specialty. The front and back show deliberate adjustments of angles, openings, and masses, all checked and balanced as the model passed under his fingers on his trestle table. Clodion's work was steeped in the imagery of Greek and Roman art, but the deliciously charged rhythms seen here are entirely his own.