SculptureFrench18th-19th century
Young Woman Carrying a Child on Her Left Shoulder
1790-1800
Artists
Claude Michel, called ClodionArtist
Dimensions
41.8 x 16 x 18.2 cm (16 7/16 x 6 5/16 x 7 3/16 in.)
Provenance
Comtesse Montesquiou-Fezensac, Paris, sold [through her sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris. No. 122]. Carlos G. de Candamo, sold [through Galerie Charpentier, no. 71, 1934]. Therese Kuhn (Mrs. Herbert N.) Straus, New York, NY, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1978.
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