Satyr with two children, holding a tambourine filled with fruit: M.38-1997

Titles

Satyr with two children, holding a tambourine filled with fruit
Satyre avec deux enfants, portant un tambour de basque chargé de fruits

Maker(s)

Sculptor: Clodion (Claude Michel) (After)
Founder: Unknown

Entities

• Figure group

Categories

• Sculpture

Description

Bronze, cast

Notes

History note: (with M.39-1997) Sir Alfred Beit Collection; His Sale, Sotheby's, London, 7 October 1948, lot 125; bt Alfred Spero (£15). Purchased by Lt Col the Hon. M.T. Boscawen, DSO, MC (1892-1958); bequeathed to his sister, the Hon. Mrs Pamela Sherek

Legal notes

Bequeathed by the Hon. Mrs Pamela Sherek, from the collection of the late Lt Col. the Hon. M.T. Boscawen, DSO, MC, in his memory.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1995) by Sherek, Pamela

Dating

19th Century
Circa 1800 CE - 1900 CE

Note

This group and its pendant (M.39-1997) are only known through 19th-century copies and not from original Clodion models. It has been suggested that both bronzes were probably cast by the Barbédienne foundry in Paris.