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201 - After Michel-Ange Slodtz (Paris, 1705 - Paris, 1764) after I…
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After Michel-Ange Slodtz (Paris, 1705 - Paris, 1764) after Iphigenia Marble, missing and small acc. France, late 18th century / early 19th century Height: 52 cm Comparative bibliography : F. Souchal, Les Slodtz, sculpteurs et décorateurs du roi (1685-1764), Paris, 1967, pp. 195-200 and pp. 658-660. F. Souchal, Les bustes de Chrysès et d'Iphigénie sculptés à Rome par M.-A. Slodtz, Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français (BSHAF), 1961, pp. 85-86. Slodtz created the terracotta model of Iphigénie in Rome between 1737 and 1740 as a pair with a bust of Chrysès (Musée du Louvre, inv. nos ENT1984.22 and 23). In 1728, Slodtz became a boarder at the Académie de France in Rome, where he was noticed by the director Nicolas Vleughels, whose bust he sculpted with great realism. He spent almost twenty years in the Eternal City, where he acquired a solid reputation thanks to his major religious works, such as La Transverbération de sainte Thérèse, the Saint Bruno in Saint-Pierre du Vatican and several sculptures for the Saint-Nom-de-Marie. He also distinguished himself in funerary sculpture with the monuments of Vleughels, the Marquis Capponi and the tomb of the archbishops of Vienna (1746). On his return to France in 1740, he came up against the intrigues of the comte de Caylus, but thanks to the support of Cochin, his talent was recognised. Weakened by illness, he nevertheless created the great mausoleum of Languet de Gergy and the high reliefs for the porch of Saint-Sulpice, works marked by an intense spirituality. Iphigenia was the daughter of Agamemnon, brother of Menelaus, and Clytemnestra. At the start of the Trojan War, the Achaean fleet was at a standstill in the port of Aulis because Agamemnon had offended the goddess Artemis. To appease his anger and allow the ships to set sail again, Agamemnon consults the soothsayer Calchas, who tells him that he will have to sacrifice his own daughter, Iphigenia. Initially revolted by the idea, Agamemnon refuses, but eventually gives in under pressure from Ulysses and Menelaus. He then devises a stratagem: he brings Iphigenia to Aulis under the illusion that she is to marry Achilles. However, at the moment of the sacrifice, Artemis, moved by the young girl, is said to have replaced Iphigenia with a deer, saving her in extremis. [AI]
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