Pair of Bacchic Figures with a Child
by CLODION, Terracotta
In Clodion’s groups sometimes it is violent impetuosity that hurls the bodies along, with flying hair and breathless faces; but at other times the tempo is gentle, even wistful: the figures are an enchanted, eternally youthful, family moving amid the scattered grapes, coming as if from some ‘vendange,’ sated with autumnal fullness.