Clodion

Japanese: クローディオン（英語表記）Clodion

Born: December 20, 1738, Nancy
[Died] March 29, 1814. French sculptor. His real name was Claude Michel. He was a member of the Adam family of sculptors from Lorraine. At the age of 17, he went to Paris to study under his uncle L. Sigisbert Adam, and later worked under JB Pigalle. In 1759, he won the Prix de Rome at the Academie, and in 1762 he traveled to Rome to study, returning to Japan in 1771. Except for a stay in Nancy from 1792 to 1798, he mostly worked in Paris. He produced small terracotta statues and marble statues in an elegant and free Rococo style. His major work is Nymph and Satyr (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

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Japanese:

[生]1738.12.20. ナンシー
[没]1814.3.29. パリ
フランスの彫刻家。本名 Claude Michel。ロレーヌ地方の彫刻家の家族アダムの一員。 17歳のときパリに出て，叔父の L.シジスベール＝アダムに学び，その後 J.B.ピガールのもとで制作。 1759年アカデミーのローマ大賞を得て，62年ローマに遊学，71年帰国。 92～98年のナンシー滞在を除けば，ほとんどパリで制作した。優雅で自由なロココ的作風で，テラコッタの小像，大理石像を制作。主要作品は『ニンフとサチュロス』 (ニューヨーク，メトロポリタン美術館) 。

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