Bathing Girl
Maker
Joseph-Charles Marin
(French, 1759-1834)
Date1788
MediumUnglazed modeled earthenware
DimensionsHeight: 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Object number1973.53
Status
Not on viewThe French sculptor Joseph-Charles Marin, a student of the Rococo master Clodion, exhibited at the Paris Salon over a period of several decades and also completed many private commissions. His preferred sculptural medium was terracotta, and he favored small-scale busts, figures, and figural groups. While Marin’s sculptures mark a transition from Rococo to neoclassical styles and assert more realism and varieties of textures than the work of his mentor Clodion, he appears not to have stayed entirely in step with the times, for toward the end of his life his work was less well regarded and he fell into financial difficulties. Statuettes such as Bathing Girl were the mainstay of his career, and his most famous work, The Bather in the Louvre, presents a similar subject in marble at a larger scale.
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