<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6733a7fd-ce57-4fbb-8196-20d7cf5f9e2c/3A76E6FD-43D4-4871-95BE-D8A08C243615/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/jahd/ho_62.55.htm" href="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/jahd/ho_62.55.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.metmuseum.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/jahd/ho_62.55.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.metmuseum.org/img/EEAA4F73-B1CE-4515-B5F1-44A8642E4BED" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/jahd/ho_62.55.htm"><P>Houdon's portrayal of Winter departs starkly from the usual allegorical representation of the season, typically depicted as a hoary old man. The naturalistic pose of the shivering, bare-bottomed girl, whose only covering is a shawl wrapped around her upper body, generates an empathy not evoked by more traditional versions. The figure's narrative aspect inspired its alternate title—"The Shivering Girl"—already current at the time of its initial presentation.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/jahd/ho_62.55.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.metmuseum.org/img/6C0B537F-14AA-4644-99D8-CE61D17DE7C2" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/jahd/ho_62.55.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.metmuseum.org/img/513E5EA1-053A-4815-A615-C550A4C039E9" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/hi_houd.htm" href="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/hi_houd.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.metmuseum.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/hi_houd.htm"><H1><SPAN class="pageLocation">Artist Index: </SPAN>Houdon, Jean–Antoine (French, 1741–1828)</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/hi_houd.htm"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top" class="objIndexImage"><A href="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/jahd/ho_32.100.159.htm"><IMG border="1" src="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/ht/ht_32.100.159.jpg" /></A></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/hi_houd.htm"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top" class="objIndexDescription"><DIV class="previewDiv" id="previewDiv32.100.159"> <TITLE>Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History</TITLE> </DIV><STRONG>The Bather (model for a fountain)</STRONG>, 18th century (ca. 1780) or 19th–early 20th century, By or after Jean-Antoine Houdon (French), Probably French, Terracotta (32.100.159)</TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/jahd/ho_62.55.htm" href="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/jahd/ho_62.55.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.metmuseum.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/jahd/ho_62.55.htm">The boldness and severity of this image is almost as shocking now as when an earlier, marble version was first shown in the sculptor's studio during the Salon of 1783.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3A76E6FD-43D4-4871-95BE-D8A08C243615/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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