Statuette

René Buthaud

ca. 1935 · Glazed earthenware · Modern and Contemporary Art

Buthaud based this statuette as much on sculpture from antiquity as on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ceramic table decorations, especially the comfortingly familiar figurines made in Staffordshire, England, which he collected. Its subject is a young flute-playing male figure with the horns—but not the goatlike lower body—of a faun. It was one of a series of statuettes Buthaud made in the mid-1930s.

Artist

René Buthaud

Date

ca. 1935

Medium

Glazed earthenware

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Credit line

Gift of Cruège-Lorrilliard-Paris, 1993