FRENCH, 19TH CENTURY

The present group relates closely to a Clodion terracotta model of a Bacchant feeding grapes to a recumbent Bacchante in the Jacquemart-André Museum, Paris. It does, however, vary compositionally since the Clodion version incorporates a different posture and includes an attendant child. Another terracotta version said to be from the circle of Clodion in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, is much closer compositionally to the present marble group, since the artist has removed the child and substituted the bacchant for a satyr who is depicted lifting a cloth from the breast of a nymph. In the present lot the cloth has been replaced with a bunch of grapes, thus incorporating elements from other known groups.