...time for some really flirtatious roccoco art. happy lovers is practically tame compared to this. the folks in this statue are blatantly partying and drinking it up with each other. in fact, the guys are all ready to carry the girl off....somewhere....unknown to us. hmmm.... though, to be fair, this is actually one of clodion's more tame works. while he chose quite a few subjects that carried blatant sexual undertones, he was, above all, an artist who created many objects for the purpose of home decoration

...such fun, fluffy depictions were a speciality of clodion's. he often chose bacchus (greek god of wine and drunken revelry), satyrs and fauns (who had the hindquarters of goats and the reputations of womanizers) and arranged them around a happy, nude woman in his works. with such characters, he created numerous scenes of flirty playfulness that appealed to wealthy patrons who liked to party and live it up. it is likely that the rich saw their lifestyles reflected in these artworks.

...roccoco is often seen as the beginning of art as decoration because it was a movement that made popular certain elements and objects (such as vases carved with laurel swag and cherubic baby angels), in addition to creating a new style of painting. in this aspect, clodion's work can definitely be categorized as decorative roccoco furnishings since much of his art were small terracotta statues or vases that can be easily carted around and exchanged by hand. they were the perfect size to fit on a corner coffee table or for display atop your piano (now i sound like a salesman. ahem. buy a clodion today!)