Girl holding fruit

Clodion (Claude Michel)

probably after model of 1780s · Terracotta · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

The attributes of this statuette corresponds to the traditional iconography of Pomona, goddess of fruit, as described in Ovid's Metamorphoses. The device of using the shift to reveal as much as to conceal the female body, which derives from Houdon's Frileuse as well as the Hellenistic Venus Callipygos, relates this work to Clodion's Girl with Doves (see 49.7.64a, b).

Artist

Clodion (Claude Michel)

Date

probably after model of 1780s

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

French

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Bequest of Isaac D. Fletcher, 1917