Hercules or Atlas Supporting the Globe
Clodion (Claude Michel)
ca. 1780 · Terracotta, painted to resemble bronze · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
This is a preliminary model for a bronze clock figure, with the movement potentially being in the globe. In an anonymous sale in Paris, 1790, a terracotta was sold that purported to be Clodion's model for a clock for Catherine the Great of Russia.
- Artist
- Clodion (Claude Michel)
- Date
- ca. 1780
- Medium
- Terracotta, painted to resemble bronze
- Culture
- French, Paris
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906
