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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

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.James de Rothschild, we are reminded of that less masculine sideof his work, by which Marin 7 was directly inspired. The sametoy-like elegance is shown in the very decorative group of three 1 In. gen. Mon. rel. Paris, t. i., p. 37. 2 In the Salon of 1804, every sculptor treated a classical subject; Clodion selectedCato; Houdon and Pajou, Cicero, and Demosthenes, etc., etc. 3 Clodion was also employed on the column of the Place Vendome. In. gen.Ed. civ. Paris, t. i., p. 347353- 1 A clock bearing a group, by Falconnet, of Louis XV. instructed by Minerva, isat Hertford House, No. 1019, Beth. Gn. Cat. The collection Leopold Doubleboasted two clocks by Falconnet and Clodion, both showing The Three Graces,the one in marble, the other in bronze. See Un mobilier historique, pp. 16, 19.The marble by Falconnet is now in the collection of Count Isaac de Camondo. Seep. 114. 5 De Villars, Notes sur Clodion, p. 13. R In the Garde-meuble. 7 Joseph-Charles Marin, Premier Prix de Sculpture, 1801. 144
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Faunesse et Enfants. By Clodin.(Alusee Ciutiy.) women moving beneath a Sphere Celeste, garlanded with Theflowers, which is now in the collection of M. Jacques Doucet,1 pj^iig?*and if we would see the most serious aspect of his supple genius, jean-we have but to go to South Kensington and there visit the Antoineboudoir of that Mme. de Serilly, whose bust, by Houdon, figured andu nat the Salon of 1783. There are many works by Clodion of this Claudeclass,2 but nothing more noble and distinguished than the grave q^/q^q1^^ Termes who support the marble chimney-piece of this beautifulroom. The profound sentiment of these figures is echoed in thenymphs who, accompanied by sea monsters of admirable spirit,figure in the bas-relief of the Triomphe de lAphrodite which—lent from the Haviland Collection—is now to be seen atthe exhibition in the Petit Palais. One cannot exaggerate thevalue of the opportunity, afforded by this gathering, of appreciat-ing the extraordinary suppleness of Clodions

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