Young Girl Carrying a Garland of Roses on a Platter (early 1770s): Art, History and Details

Young Girl Carrying a Garland of Roses on a Platter (early 1770s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Clodion (French, 1738–1814).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Claude Michel, generally referred to as Clodion, is best known for his decorative terra-cotta statuettes. This work is quite representative of Clodion in both subject and style. The sculpture, which is developed upon works dating from the artist's earlier residency in Rome, represents a standing female figure carrying an abundant display of flora. The figure alludes to Greek and Roman depictions of the horae, or goddesses of the seasons, and, through the figure's floral crown and platter, can easily be attributed to the season of spring.

Object facts

• Title: Young Girl Carrying a Garland of Roses on a Platter
• Date: early 1770s
• Creator attribution: Clodion (French, 1738–1814)
• Culture: France
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: terracotta
• Dimensions: Overall: 45.1 x 15.2 x 17.3 cm (17 3/4 x 6 x 6 13/16 in.)
• Collection: Sculpture
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1942.50

Collection credit

Gift of Grace Rainey Rogers in memory of her father, William J. Rainey

Further reading listed by the museum

• Milliken, William. "The Rousseau de la Rottière Room the Gift of Grace Rainey Rogers." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 29, no. 4 (April 1942): 47-66
• Hawley, Henry H. Neo-Classicism: Style and Motif. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art; distributed by H.N. Abrams, New York, 1964.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.

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