File:French architects and sculptors of the XVIIIth century (1900) (14761513571).jpg

Identifier: frencharchitects00dilk (find matches)
Title: French architects and sculptors of the XVIIIth century
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Dilke, Emilia Francis Strong, Lady, 1840-1904
Subjects: Architects Sculpture, French Sculptors
Publisher: London, G. Bell and sons
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
whilst many bronzes, as for ex-ample, A Satyr and a Female Satyr at Hertford House are ofgreat beauty. Nothing can be conceived more admirably calcu-lated to be the crowning ornament of a room decorated with the 1 He succeeded his uncle, Francois-Gaspard Adam, who died in 1761, as head ofthe atelier of sculpture, established by Frederick the Great. His incapacity andslackness led to his discreditable desertion of his post in 1770-71. In 1773, he,nevertheless, made a vain attempt to return to Berlin. Paul Seidel,Sigisbert-FrancoisMichel, Jahrbuch der K. P. Kunstsammlungen, 1893. 1 His diploma work. 3 This was also the case with Tassaert, who worked with Clodion, Leconte, andCaffieri, on the Hotel of the Abbe Terray. He left France for Berlin in 1774 as suc-cessor to Sigisbert-Michel. There he exercised an immense influence. The modernGerman school proceeds from him. Thirion, Les Adam et les Clodion; PaulSeidel, Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tassaert, Jahrbuch der K. P. Kunstsammlungen, 1893. 142
Text Appearing After Image:
Faune et Enfants. By Clodin.(Musee Cluny.) luxurious elegance of the days of Louis XVI. than a group by TheClodion,1 such as that, in the collection of Mme. Pereire, of Two l^lle?*Bacchantes dancing with a Little Satyr, which we find enlarged jean-and completed by the addition of a young Bacchus in the brilliant Antoine r i i • n 1 • r r> ■» «- .. Houdon version or the same subject now in the possession or Count Moise an(jde Camondo,2 the swine and movement of which might have in- Claude O O -m ft • * I J . • -m spired the frenzied Danse by Carpeaux, and with these we may Clodion/rank that other charming subject, in the Andre collection, wherethe happy Nymph, with a child in her arms, lies back restingon the knee of the young Bacchus, who presses the grapes in hisfingers from which the juice falls gently on his companionsparted lips.3 The extreme license of Clodions work was reflected, as in thecase of Boucher, in the equal license of his life, to which his mar-riage (1

Note About Images