SculptureFrench18th-19th century
Young Woman Carrying a Child on Her Right Shoulder
1790-1800
Artists
Claude Michel, called ClodionArtist
Dimensions
43.8 x 13 x 13 cm (17 1/4 x 5 1/8 x 5 1/8 in.)
Provenance
Comtesse Montesquiou-Fezensac, Paris, sold [through her sale, Hôtel Drouot, no. 122, Paris]. Carlos G. de Candamo, sold [through Galerie Charpentier, no. 71, Paris, 1934]. Therese Kuhn (Mrs. Herbert N.) Straus, New York, NY, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1978.
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