Hercules or Atlas Supporting the Globe ca. 1780 Possibly by Clodion (Claude Michel) French This is a preliminary model for a bronze clock figure; the movement would have been 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 Hercules or Atlas Supporting the Globe 189645 Artist: Possibly by Clodion (Claude Michel), French, Nancy 1738?1814 Paris, Hercules or Atlas Supporting the Globe, ca. 1780, Terracotta, painted to resemble bronze, Height: 15 5/8 in. ( cm). The Metropolitan Museum
Hercules or Atlas Supporting the Globe ca. 1780 Possibly by Clodion (Claude Michel) French This is a preliminary model for a bronze clock figure; the movement would have been 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 Hercules or Atlas Supporting the Globe 189645 Artist: Possibly by Clodion (Claude Michel), French, Nancy 1738?1814 Paris, Hercules or Atlas Supporting the Globe, ca. 1780, Terracotta, painted to resemble bronze, Height: 15 5/8 in. ( cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906 ()
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