Hercules or Atlas Supporting the Globe

Clodion (Claude Michel)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This is a preliminary model for a bronze clock figure, with the movement potentially being in the globe. In an anonymous sale in Paris, 1790, a terracotta was sold that purported to be Clodion's model for a clock for Catherine the Great of Russia.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The fifty thousand objects in the Museum's comprehensive and historically important collection of European sculpture and decorative arts reflect the development of a number of art forms in Western European countries from the early fifteenth through the early twentieth century. The holdings include sculpture in many sizes and media, woodwork and furniture, ceramics and glass, metalwork and jewelry, horological and mathematical instruments, and tapestries and textiles. Ceramics made in Asia for export to European markets and sculpture and decorative arts produced in Latin America during this period are also included among these works.

Metropolitan Museum of Art