Lot n° 57
Estimation :
6000 - 8000
EUR
Result with fees
Result
: 7 150EUR
Johannes Cardon (1614-1656) - Lot 57
Johannes Cardon (1614-1656)
Putti playing with a goat
Terracotta bas-relief
Signed Johannes Cardon fecit
Dim. 30.6 x 51 cm (Damage and restoration)
Our model is probably a preparatory sketch for a marble. The marble itself served as a model for a grisaille painting by Flemish artist Piat Joseph Sauvage (1744-1818), which passed into the Paris trade in 1989. Although very similar, there are significant differences between our terracotta and Sauvage's trompe l'oeil. Johannes Cardon himself made certain variations when transcribing the scene into marble.
Johannes Cardon has adopted the codes of the bacchanalian representations of intrepid young lovers by, among others, Gerard van Opstal (1594-1668), François Duquesnoy (1597-1643), and later in France by Claude Michel, known as Clodion (1738- 1814). Son and pupil of Arras-born sculptor Forci Cardon, and brother of Antwerp sculptor Servais or Servaes Cardon, Johannes or Jean Cardon was born in Antwerp in the early 17th century. A master of both wood and terracotta, Johannes created the choir stalls for the Benedictine Abbey of Afflighem-lez-Bruxelles and the altar tabernacle for Saint-Rombaut Cathedral in Mechelen. In 1643, the sculptor became a Freemason of the Guild of Saint-Luc. A forerunner, at this time the artist adopted a refined style, characteristic of the late Baroque that spread widely in the
We know of very few works by this artist, who is sometimes mistaken for a namesake, born in Douai in 1605 or 1612 and son of Jacques Cardon.
His most famous works are two terracotta Virgins with Child dating from 1643, one in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp (inv. 55 - CVH11B), the other in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels (inv. 11463).
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