£450
Claude Michel 'Clodion' (French, 1738-1814)
Bacchanal
c. 1784
Bronze cast in relief and engraved
Signed 'Clodion' lower right
Inscribed 'A Monseigneur le Prince de Rohan / HOMMAGE de l'auteur / M. C. / 1787' verso
Louis-René de Rohan, Cardinal de Rohan, was a French cardinal and statesman and a member of the powerful Rohan family. He made himself an enemy of Queen Marie Antoinette and became embroiled in the famous 'affair of the diamond necklace' in 1784-1785, only being acquitted in 1786.
Dimensions:
8.5 in. (H) x 20 in. (W)
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