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The Blind Homer
Artist: Claude Michel, called Clodion (French, 1738-1814)
Date: 1810
Dimensions:
H: 23 1/8 in. (58.7 cm); Base W: 16 13/16 in. (42.7 cm); Base Depth: 10 7/8 in. (27.6 cm); Depth (with Homer's left hand and youth's left foot):14 3/4 in. (37.5 cm)
Medium: Bronze
Classification: Sculpture
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in Memory of her Father, Maurice A. Scott
Object number: 1976.2
Label Text:Though best-known for his more lighthearted terracotta sculptures, Clodion changed his style after the French Revolution to the more sober, Greco-Roman-inspired style of Neoclassicism. Here he represents a passage from the Life of Homer, considered in the 18th century to be the work of the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. According to the text, the blind Homer, great poet of the Iliad and the Odyssey, had been abandoned by fishermen on a Greek island, where he is attacked by dogs guarding a herd of goats. The goatherd Glaucus comes to the rescue, fighting off the vicious dogs.
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