Minerva, 1766, French, modeled in Italy (Rome), Terracotta, Height: 18 3/4 in. ( cm), Sculpture, Clodion (Claude Michel

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Minerva, 1766, French, modeled in Italy (Rome), Terracotta, Height: 18 3/4 in. ( cm), Sculpture, Clodion (Claude Michel) (French, Nancy 1738–1814 Paris), The entertaining French sculptor Claude Michel—called Clodion— spent nine years in Italy (1762–71), where he attended the French Academy in Rome and studied important collections of antiquities. Instructed by Charles-Joseph Natoire, director of the French Academy, to study sculpture by making clay copies instead of drawing, Clodion soon perfected a type of highly finished small terracotta sculpture popular with eighteenth-century collectors

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