National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: Eve Eating the Apple
  • Inscription
  • Provenance
  • Exhibition History
  • Bibliography

Overview

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Inscription

on self-base below left leg: A. Rodin

Marks and Labels

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Provenance

Acquired possibly 1905 from the artist by Mr. and Mrs. John W. Simpson, New York;[1] gift 1942 to NGA.

[1] In her letter to the artist of 13 October 1905 (Musée Rodin Archives, Paris), Mrs. Simpson referred to works that Rodin had given her and that needed to be repaired and fired again. Eve Eating the Apple, which has a broken leg, may well have been one of these. There are no other references in the correspondence between Mrs. Simpson and Rodin about the Simpsons having received terracottas.

Exhibition History

1946
Rodin: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no. 12, as Eve.
1965
Wax Sculptures by Degas, Sculptures and Drawings by Rodin, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965-1966, no cat.
1974
Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1974, unnumbered checklist.
1981
Rodin Rediscovered, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1981-1982, not in cat.

Bibliography

1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 167.
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 147, repro.
1976
Frel, Jiri, and Harvey West. Rodin: The Maryhill Collection. Exh. cat. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Washington State University, Pullman. Pullman, 1976: 34.
1976
Tancock, John. The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin. Philadelphia, 1976: 264-265, 626.
1992
Barbier, Nicolle. Rodin sculpteur: Oeuvres méconnues. Exh. cat. Musée Rodin, Paris, 1992: 41-51.
1994
Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 201, repro.
1998
Porter, John R., and Yves Lacasse. Rodin à Québec. Quebec, 1998: 32-33.
2000
Butler, Ruth, and Suzanne Glover Lindsay, with Alison Luchs, Douglas Lewis, Cynthia J. Mills, and Jeffrey Weidman. European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 348-351, color repro.

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