Antique French Neoclassical Rococo Bronze Figural Group of Wine Bacchantes by Clodion 1762 Redo each salt having a shovel

each salt having a shovel shaped spoon

Artistically he was decisively influenced by Isabey’s marine painting

when they encounter a stranger on the road and do not see that he is Jesus resurrected

The painting is signed and dated lower left

great texture juxtaposing a soft and almost dreamy rendering of the figure and an overall sense of grace and elegance

Antique French Neoclassical Rococo Bronze Figural Group of Wine Bacchantes by Clodion 1762 Redo each salt having a shovelSOLD A fine antique bronze figural group of Bacchantes by Claude Michel (Clodion) ( 1738 1814). The bronze depicts a pair of bacchantes, the female followers of Bacchus the Roman god of wine and revelry (Dionysus was the Greek god). Both female figures are draped in Greco Roman dress and wearing sandals, one bacchante is depicted standing & holding a fruiting vine, the other is kneeling next to a wine amphora with grapes. This bronze was first cast in