Clodion's sculpture of the Déluge

Author

Poulet, Anne L.

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Journal of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 1991, Vol. 3, 51-76, 29 ill.

ISSN

1041-2433

Abstract (en)

Study of the life-size plaster sculpture, exhibited at the Salon of 1801 (now destroyed), based on a terra-cotta study, 1800, now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Traces Clodion's sources in antique and 18th c. sculpture, and 17th-18th c. painting, and shows the evolution of the group from its early, classical style to its final, romanticized form. Reviews the iconography of the flood in 18th c. French art, and relates it to the contemporary fascination with geology. Notes that the Deluge represents Clodion's attempt to create a "modern" sculpture, but that since the work was never executed in marble, it had only limited influence on later artists.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- Sculpture -- France
• Clodion (Claude Michel), 1738-1814
• Sculpture
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston||Boston (MA, USA)
• Flood
• France
• 1800-1900
• Floods
• Iconography
• Sources
• Ancient [art]
• Art
• Geology
• Study for the Flood
• Painting

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Sculpture -- France
• Clodion (Claude Michel), 1738-1814
• Sculpture
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston||Boston (MA, USA)
• Déluge
• France
• 1800-1900
• Inondation
• Iconographie
• Sources
• Antique (art)
• Art
• Géologie
• Etude pour le Déluge
• Peinture

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19920701-00428111

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