Two large marble figures representing a Bacchante, her hair mingled with grapes and holding a cup containing grapes, and a figure of Erigone, wearing ivy leaves and looking at a bunch of grapes, with a tree trunk and rattlesnakes. Attributed to Jean Joseph Foucou (1739-1815). Late 18th-early 19th century. H. 97 cm and 99 cm PFD Minor accidents and restorations, notably to the base Provenance : Sale Paris, Néret-Minet, Couteau-Bégarie, 1st December 1989, lot 128. Sale Paris, Néret-Minet study, 21 November 2008, lot 76. Bibliography: A.L. Poulet and G. Scherf, Clodion, exhibition catalogue, Musée du Louvre, Paris 1992, pp. 380-381. A certain similarity of style and subject sometimes leads to confusion between the works of Clodion and those of Jean Joseph Foucou. In this respect, the catalogue of the 1992 Clodion exhibition gives the Bacchante holding a child satyr on her shoulder in the Musée du Louvre (no. 83) to Foucou. The catalogue then makes a number of comparisons, citing in particular two pendant marble figures sold at Hôtel Drouot in Paris on 1 December 1989, lot 128, one representing a Bacchante and the other Erigone, the latter gazing lovingly at a bunch of grapes (corresponding to Bacchus' transformation to seduce her), with rattlesnakes hanging from the tree trunk. The Clodion exhibition catalogue compares the bacchante figure to the one in the Louvre, and suggests that the figure of Erigone may correspond to the Foucou marble from the Salon of 1806 (no. 598 in the booklet).